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Excellent advice, David. Very useful for all. I have similar experiences even from the dreaded Stacker days of old! Best regards, Larry -----Original Message----- From: David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu> To: shelby@netten.net <shelby@netten.net> Cc: ThinkPad List <thinkpad@cs.utk.edu> Date: 15 April 1998 20:11 Subject: Compression (was: Re: Win98) >>Has >>anyone tried compression on their hard drive, looking for an economical way >>to secure more hard drive space. > > >I've used compression for years on several machines, both in DOS/W3.1 and in >W95, with never a problem. I don't know what the W98 compression is like, >but the version of DriveSpace that came with W95 OSR2 is quite stable. > >What I usually do (for safety) is create a 'virtual' compressed drive on my >regular drive. For example, on my 701 with 340 megs, my C drive became a 100 >meg 'regular' drive, and the other 240 megs were turned into a compressed D >drive. The former held all vital system stuff, backup programs, and critical >data files (e.g., current manuscripts and gradebooks). The latter held (1) >easily-restored files (i.e., software; MS Office compresses nicely, for >example), (2) directories with lots of little files (like the TeX system), >and (3) very compressible stuff (e.g., .DOC files). >This strategy produces maximum benefit with minimum danger. (On my 340 meg >drive I had W95, a full install of MS Office, a full install of Lotus >SmartSuite, 2 hefty statistics packages (SAS and S+), a very complete >TeX/LaTeX implementation, several language compilers, etc.) > >- David R. > >