Re: Hardpressed and Salvat

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <151510847.47732082@adbbs.antioch.edu>,
John L. Graham <John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu> wrote:
>I've no doubt ProSel is a great program. However, it still doesn't answer the
>question whether using a disk compaction utility like HardPressed cause
>problems with disk maintenance utilities like ProSel or Salvation or
>whatever.

   Here's what was answered before: Hard Pressed compresses files, and
stores them _as files_. It does not mess with the directory sturucture
or anything else. Further, if you turn off its expansion of files, it
makes all compressed files appear as compressed files. Each compressed
file is merely a smaller version of the full one (with a different file
type to signify that it is compressed); no other work is done.

   If you're paranoid, you can turn HardPressed off and run your disk
utility programs. You won't be able to really access the compressed
files, but they'll be just like other files. As long as the disk
utility programs can deal with files (duh), they'll work just fine.

   This is radically different from MS-DOG 6's compression, which
writes data to partitions in radically different manners, and would
break some disk util programs.

Nathan Mates
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