Re: HardPressed/AutoArk...

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>Stacker on the PC clones works *really* transparently... as far as I can tell.
>AutoDoubler on the Mac, and AutoArk for the ][gs all SLOW down the machine
>noticably.  I'm wondering how well HardPress can do...

I know three people who used Stacker and gave it up some months later
because it gave them nothing but problems. One guy says that after a few
months files started spontaneously renaming themselves. Undesirable stuff
like that...

AutoArk is unacceptable, IMHO because it is not transparent. As I understand
you're in trouble if you don't use the Finder, and doing an OpenGS, ReadGS,
CloseGS sequence on a file won't unpack it.

HardPressed is transparent. As far as speed...

Anyway, my point is that don't look up so high to the IBM. They've got their
problems too!

>Reading from magazine/journals, Stacker actually makes booting into Windows
>slightly faster.  Because it takes fewer time to load compressed stuff.  I

Of course there's no reason why anyone would want to boot into Windows! :-)
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