Time: Thu Nov 14 10:31:09 1996
To: gdoty@earthlink.net (Greg Doty)
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: disc compression
Cc: 
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Since I use mostly sequential files,
I have been having a lot of success
with DRVSPACE and MS-DOS 6.22
and Windows 3.11.  I also use 
the Norton Utilities.  Finally,
DOS comes with DEFRAG, which also
frees up wasted space.  The only
real problem I have had with 
DRVSPACE is that it assigns multiple
letter drives on a large hard disk.
If you can live with that, I highly
recommend it, particularly for 
mostly sequential files. Finally,
PKZIP is very robust, and quite general-
purpose:  it can even compress to 
multiple floppy drives, by spanning
media:

  C:\TEMP> pkzip a:\filename.zip *.* -&w

/s/ Paul Mitchell


At 08:37 AM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>Since you seem to be a guru on computers, do you know 
>of any current disc compression program available? In 
>years gone by (in the 286 days with the astounding 50 
>meg drives) there was a compression program available 
>which moved files around to free up unused sectors. Is 
>there anything like it surviving today?
>
>Greg
>
>
      

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