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Re: OS/2 Warp Compression



>1. What a space hog! Even dumping the majority of the free works stuff, 
>AND limiting the swapfile size, this this is a pig.  I also dislike how 
>long it takes to boot up, I could do dos and windows in half the time!

Won't you be surprised when you see that Windows95 comes on 20
some disks? ;)  I think this point is pretty much beating a dead
horse.  DOS/Win may boot up twice as fast, but you'll spend twice
as often (at least) booting it up.

>2. I bought the Lotus Smartsuite for OS/2 (At $120, what a deal!) and I 
>hope to heck they improve it in the future....Amipro and 123 ae GIANT 
>leaps backward from Word for Windows 6.0 and Excel for win 5.0 in terms 
>of features and ease of use. I am waiting for some enhancements, hint hint!

Agree wholeheartedly! It's said that Lotus is waiting for their
next release to catch up the OS/2 and Win versions -- of course,
that'll be when Win95 ships...

>I didn't realize OS/2 would be wanting a 20meg swap file, and would take 
>over 30 megs if given its way.  Needless to say, I am still only 

There's something wrong here.  It shouldn't take that much with
20mb RAM.  When I ran on 12mb RAM, I alloted it an initial 10mb
swap and it hardly ever went over.

>Someone posted a Stacker-like program for OS/2 which took advantage of 
>32bit performance....I looked and wound up installing Zipstream, which 

I do believe it was ZipStream.
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Sean Chou / schou@uiuc.edu / CompuServe 73672,2111