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From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Need opinion on DiskDoubler
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Date: 21 Mar 91 20:47:16 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.023500.15513@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>, cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller) writes:
> 
> [ asks opinion of DiskDoubler, and asks for followup to the board ]
> 
> It's good, you can get it from one of the overnight mo houses,
> (MacConnection, MacWarehouse, etc.), it is not totally transparent
> (it compresses and uncompresses data files in a couple of seconds
> as you open them), and I find it works best when you have a 
> good quantity of data files, many of which you don't use very
> often.
> 
> The only thing I don't like about it is that it replaces the
> icons with its own--harder to see immediately which app. created
> the file.
> 
You must not have the updated version (3.1 of the app).  This version
has icons for 40 or so of the most popular files.  The DD icon becomes
the existing icon with a discreet "DD" in the bottom left corner.

While we're on the topic, check out the news page of the current (April)
Macworld.  There is a paragraph on a new program called SuperDisk,
which is claimed to be a software-only compression utility that is
*5 times* faster than DD.

Of course I didn't believe these folks, so I called them.  Not only
do they claim all of that is true, but the person said that one good
technique is to compress your *entire* disk except for the System
folder.  They also claim that one can perform full-text searches with
On Location on the *compressed* files.

A copy is on the way.  I'll report back.  

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