Re: Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.
> I am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities
> such as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S?
>
> I heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility. Fact or
> Fantasy?
The "conventional" utils are not compatible with Linux. I believe there is a
utility to allow Linux to read DoubleSpaced systems.
Linux has a filesystem-independent on-the-fly compression for Linux called
DouBle, that incidentally, I am writing the documentation for :-)
Check it out at http://homepage.midusa.net/~jgoerzen/DouBle
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