Harddisk Compression Replies

Date: 02 Apr 95 14:08:05 EDT

Compact Pro is a shareware file compression and archival utility.
It compresses and stores files in "archives" which may span multiple
diskettes. Compact Pro supports data encryption (US and Canadian
users only) and self-extracting archives. Version 1.51 is a "fat"
binary, so it will run in native mode on Power Macs as well as on
standard Macs.

Compact Pro may be used on a free trial basis for 30 days. If you
find it useful and continue to use it beyond the free trial period,
you are required to pay a $25 registration fee. Self-extracting
archives created by Compact Pro may be used for commercial
distribution of software/data with no additional license fee.

This file is a self-extracting archive created with Compact Pro.
Double-clicking on it will create a folder with the Compact Pro
application and documentation files.

Bill Goodman
Cyclos
71101.204@compuserve.com

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Date: Thu, 14 May 92 10:06:08 -0400

I follow the BIONET-L and this was posted just the other day. I thought
that it would have utility to the info-mac community so here it is. The
chart is set up to be viewed in 80 columns with a mono-spaced font.
There is also an address to ftp the most recent copy. I did not compact/
stuff/hqx this file since it is text to begin with. (has anyone noticed
that hqx will eliminate most of the 'stuffing' - size wise?)

ENJOY
tim cera
tim@ufcia.health.ufl.edu

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The most recent copy of this text may be anonymous ftp'd from
ftp.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) in the directory /doc/pcnet as
the file compression.
This file is maintained by David Lemson (lemson@uiuc.edu).

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 11:10:00 PDT

This is a compilation of the replies I received from Info-Mac by asking the
following question:

"I'm thinking of buying either Times Two or AutoDoubler. I have a Mac Classic
4/40 and I'd very much like to know if I'll experience noticeable performance
loss when these utilities compresses/decompresses in the background?"

I seems that the conclusion is that if you've got a Classic (or similar low
performance computer) you should go for an external harddrive. On other
machines your machine's performance falls of course, but hopefully you won't
notice it as much as with the Classic.

For more information read the file "times-two.txt" archived at sumex-aim as
mac/info-mac/report/times-two.txt

Hope this little bit helps someone

Path: /www/exparrot/files.tidbits.com/info-mac/cmp/compact-pro-151.hqx