Re: Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.

[Boris Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>]

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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joe Manarolla wrote:

jman>I am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities
jman>such as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S?
jman>
jman>I heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility. Fact or
jman>Fantasy?
there is for dublespace
here is the LSM entry:
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Begin2
Title        = Linux Filesystem for DoubleSpace (readonly)
Version      = 1.1
Desc1        = With this kernel module Linux is able to read
Desc2        = a DoubleSpace compressed Filesystem.
Author       = Thomas Scheuermann
AuthorEmail  = ths@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de
Maintainer   = Thomas Scheuermann
MaintEmail   = ths@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de
Site1        = ftp.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de
Path1        = /pub/os/linux/local/
File1        = thsfs.tgz
FileSize1    = 12076
Required1    = kernel 1.1.12 or newer with changes
CopyPolicy1  = See copyright on files. Basically free
Keywords     = Filesystem DoubleSpace
Comment1     = First version
Comment2     = Try it :-)
Entered      = 04OCT94
EnteredBy    = Thomas Scheuermann
CheckedEmail = ths@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de
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^^ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/thsfs.tgz


and another one:
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Title:          dmsdosfs
Version:        0.7.0
Entered-date:   23AUG96
Description:    dmsdos filesystem for Linux: extends msdos filesystem to allow
                full read and restricted write access to msdos/win95 compressed
                partitions (msdos files like dblspace.xxx and drvspace.xxx and
		stacvol.xxx). The following configurations are supported:
                 - DoubleSpace / DriveSpace compressed msdos 6.x partitions
		                    (read-write),
	        - DoubleSpace and DriveSpace 3 compressed win95 partitions
                   (read-write with some restrictions for DriveSpace 3),
		- and Stacker 3 and 4 compressed partitions (read-only).
                This version is compatible with the 1.2.13, most 1.3.xx,
		pre-2.0.x and the 2.0.x kernels. It can run together with vfat
                or umsdos and can handle win95 long filenames itself. This
		version includes the new dmsdos daemon for fast write access.
                Support for Linux < 2.0.1 is likely to disappear soon.
Keywords:       Linux filesystem doublespace drivespace stacker
Author:         gockel@etecs4.uni-duisburg.de (Frank Gockel)
Maintained-by:  gockel@etecs4.uni-duisburg.de (Frank Gockel)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/dosfs 140 kB dmsdosfs-0.7.0.tgz
Alternate-site: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/systems/linux/local/system 140 kB dmsdosfs-0.7.0.tgz
Original-site:
Platforms:      Linux 1.2.13, 1.3.xx, pre-2.0.xx, 2.0.x, msdos 6.x, win95
Copying-policy: GPL
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the same place but in dosfs dir

hope that helps

Good luck

P.S i didn't tryed it - just know it exists
P.P.S forget about the dos compressed sh...... use linux :)

borik

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