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re: cant find a disK compression utility
Monday, April 28, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (19240 messages posted)

Another reason was that it was a terrible concept, that failed catastrophically on a frequent basis. One bad file killed every file in the single compressed file.

On Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 3:55 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>As per the original answer, back when Win95 and Win98 were relatively new, storage
>was very expensive, so even MS-DOS had its own compression function. Stacker was
>the best known and most reliable of the aftermarket programs.
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>WinME was pretty terrible in its day, and was never hugely popular. If it didn't
>have disk compression (with a "K", since it's not related to optical drives), it
>was because the cost of storage had already begun dropping. It does seem to me that
>W2K had such a function, however.
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>Kiwi
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Written in response to:: re: cant find a disK compression utility (Kiwi: Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 3:55 pm)

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cant find a disc compression utility (mntmanmaps: Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 9:02 pm)

re: cant find a disc compression utility (Keith Stanier: Sat, Feb 23, 2008, 6:20 am)

re: cant find a disK compression utility (Kiwi: Sat, Feb 23, 2008, 3:55 pm)

re: cant find a disK compression utility (Ricer46: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 12:40 pm)

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