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From: hashem@aludra.usc.edu (BaSiL hAsHeM)
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Subject: Stack Compaction and large distributions
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Date: 10 Apr 91 19:42:41 GMT
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Dear n-ether-lan-ders,

1. What exactly does File menu command "Compact Stack" do?  What is compacted?

2. I'm designing a stack with lots of sounds in it.  I've used a 4:1
compression to try and save space, does anyone have other suggestions to help
reduce the size of the stack without sacrificing any more sound quality?

3. What are some techniques that some of you have used to distribute a multi-
disk stack?  Supposing that the end-users don't have (or don't deal with)
StuffIt/Compactor/etc...  Is HDBackup is only appropriate choice?  Just
collecting before I going off to code it up myself.

Pre-thanks,

-- 

       Basil Hashem               "So watcha gonna do when ya grow up, son?"
       Jet Propulsion Laboratory          University of Southern California
       hashem@aludra.usc.edu              basil@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov