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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ***DoubleDisk***
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Date: 5 Nov 90 02:31:46 GMT
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          njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman) said:
>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?

I guess the *correct* solution is ta just buy one o' them thar IBM custom
LEDs (light-emitting doorstops) that some would call a computer and then
buy that thar DoubleDisk thingey!  Viola! Violin!  You've got yerself just
what you've been hankering for, partner!

[btw I know that the correct word is 'voila' (perhaps with an accent mark?).]

How 'bout buying a Commodore Bridgeboard, etc...?  Seriously, if the Double-
Disk uncompresses data files automagically when they get loaded into a
word processor, then there's something sitting around waiting to uncompress
the file or the files only work with certain programs?

Of course this is all so many BS.  What you need is a bigger harddrive! :-)
                              ^^
                             (baloney slices)

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