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From: rubin@watson.ibm.com (Bill Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Data Compression On The Fly
Message-ID: <1991May3.150734.27609@watson.ibm.com>
Date: 3 May 91 15:07:34 GMT
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In  <1991May1.163537.6024@cerritos.edu>  brantley@cerritos.edu writes:
>
>          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.

I just installed STACKER on my Toshiba T2000SX last week. It seems to work
just great, and I haven't found any incompatability problems. One minor
complaint is that the program won't load itself into high memory without
something like QEMM or 386MAX, and running them on the Toshiba tends to
blast away the autoresume feature. The program takes 30k, so it makes things
a little tight. It definitely did double the size of my disk. I believe my
actual compression is closer to 1.9 than 2.0, but I'll live. 80mb sure is
nice, compared to 40mb.

I believe that Stacker was on sale recently at Egghead for $89. These sort
of programs seem ideally suited for laptops!

-- Bill rubin@watson.ibm.com