55srwlgs@SACEMNET.AF.MIL ("55SRWLGS") (12/27/90)
Just got a flier in the mail about a program called STACKER. It's
one of those programs which increases hard disk space by compressing
program and other files.
This one seems to be more like the French Freeware program LZEXE,
or maybe Phil Katz's newest program, PKLITE. STACKER saves space by,
according to their ad/flier:
1. by replacing repeated sequences of bytes it finds in your file
with tokens that point to a previous occurance. This process that
removes redundance and takes less space is called lossless data
compression because no data is lost in the process.
2. Stacker uses less of your disk to store small files by
allocating your disk space in 512-byte sectors instead of 2048 - byte
clusters.
Item 1 sounds like STACKER might be similar to LZEXE and PKLTE.
Item 2 I don't know what tradeoffs you might have to put up with.
Has anyone else used/worked with STACKER? Appreciate any
thoughts.
Frank Starr
55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil