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From: epa@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Eric P. Armstrong)
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Subject: Re: ***DoubleDisk***
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Date: 4 Nov 90 20:02:03 GMT
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njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman) writes:


>Many people have responded that DoubleDisk which is for the IBM is not
>really a hard drive expander but a data compressor.  Powerpacker was
>suggested as the Amiga alternative for compressions of files which will
>still remain executionable.  However when Powerpacker compacts a data 
>file {text} the file gets a .pp extension and can not be accessed until
>it is "dePowerPacked" while on DoubleDisk it decompresses when the file
>is called up {by a word processor}.  Another thing is the PowerPacker does
>not handle IFF and a couple of other types of files claiming "bad huc 
>structure".  If PowerPacker does not solve the question, what is the
>correct solution?

Re-writing the trackdisk.device to do the compression/decompression would
be the most logical solution.

>					J.Norell Guttman
>					njg2@po.cwru.edu

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