Re: re PCTransporter

[gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)]

John Fenske (jfenske@muug.mb.ca) wrote:
: >Either way, Stacker will probably slow down your system significantly,
:  
: Although I've not used Stacker, I can say surprisingly that DOS 6 doesn't
: show any considerable slow down on the PCT (re: disk compression).

     I can say that having tried Stacker with the PCT in some cases the
system seemed to go faster.  That is right faster.  On GEnie someone else
(I am pretty sure) posted the same thing.  I know someone who uses it all
the time on thier own PC and they did timings and found that it hardly ever
slowed things down, in fact it seemed to speed things up in some cases.
(Yah I know the old I know someone who knows someone who knows someone....)
The only time it seems slower is when booting.  Big deal you go through it
only once.

: >Thanks for the info. I am a little naive about DOS, so can you tell me
: >what are the features of MS-DOS 5 that makes it better than DOS 3.3?
:  
: Besides the features of DOS 5, DOS 6 has the "Double-Space" disk doubling
: that works with the PCT (so far) but also has a better undelete feature,
: extensive on line help (in fact the DOS 6 manual is very thin as it always
: makes you refer to the on-disk help), and the ability to select different
: autoexec.bat/config.sys upon boot.

    What about virus checking.  Doesn't it do that also?

Gary
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