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From: brantley@cerritos.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Data Compression On The Fly
Message-ID: <1991May1.163537.6024@cerritos.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 23:35:37 GMT
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA
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         I am interested in hearing from any laptop or notebook users that
         are using:

         	- Stacker;
         	- Double Disk;
         	- Squish Plus;
         	- or any device driver based data compression utility.

         These programs claim to increase available disk space using a
         device driver to perform data compression.

         For example, Squish Plus, in their documentation, states that it
         sets up another drive letter via a device driver.  Any files in
         this new drive are compressed as they enter and de-compressed as
         they are extracted.  Other application software sees this new
         drive just as it would see any other drive. 

         	Do they do the job of increasing disk space?

         	What performance hits have you experienced?

         	Any problems with software incompatibility?

         I have a NEC UltrLite with a 2 mb silicon hard disk and would
         really like to have 4 mb via data compression on the fly.
-- 
Douglas Brantley, Cerritos College, 11110 E. Alondra Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650
Voice: 213-860-2451 ext 219,  InterNet:  BRANTLEY@CERRITOS.EDU