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In message Thu, 01 Dec 1994 21:15:41 +0100, robr@iaehv.nl (Rob Ruggenberg) writes: > A reaction about (a) disk space: > Warp was somewhat of a disappointment for me as my Thinkpad has only a 170 > Mb hd, which I had doublespaced into 240 Mb. On that drive I had about 80 > Mb free - rather comfortable. .... > So now I have Warp and about 50 MB free space left. > I feel disappointed because I still miss that 100 Mb software that I had > to dump..... > In some newsgroups I was told that in January there will be a Stacker 4 > especially for OS2. I'll wait for that. I highly recommend you check out Zipstream on ftp-os2.cdrom.com as the file /pub/os2/32bit/diskutil/zs102b.zip. It's operating premise is more secure than Stacker's - each file is compressed and saved separately, meaning a bad sector can only take one file, not your entire file system. The compression is better - it comes within 1% of the latest version of PKZip by my tests (Stacker will compress better if you've got thousands of files < 512bytes and you're using FAT instead of HPFS) It's faster - it's threaded so all compression takes place in the background. No more waiting for your command prompt to reappear while the compression software does its job. It's cheaper - it's shareware at about $45US. It supports HPFS, it's here now. The only minus I can think of is that there's no DOS equivalent so any compressed files are accessible only from OS/2. Also, it seems to slow down if you have lots of files in one directory (I don't think it's much more than Stacker, but it's been so long since I used Stacker that I can't tell). Can you tell I like it? :-) > In the mean time I keep thinking: why did not IMB include a > diskcompression programm with Warp? 1) They're unable to comprehend customers' desires, 2) They wanted to encourange other companies to write such file systems - OS/2 is designed to handle multiple file systems, you just programmers to write an appropriate IFS (installable file system). You can pick the conjunction: 'and' or 'or' Make sure you backup regularly when using any sort of compression program. _____________________________________________________________________ |\_____________________________________________________________________\ | | | | | John H. Kim "None of what you are seeing is actually happening." | | | jokim@mit.edu | | | jokim@uni.uiuc.edu - disclaimer for TV movie 'Without Warning' | \|_____________________________________________________________________|