Subj : Re: MS-DOS
To   : Black Arrow
From : dejavu
Date : Thu Jun 18 2020 20:23:20

On 30 Nov 1999, Black Arrow said the following...
 
 BA>  NS> I think DOS 5 introducted Stacker.. a drive compression program that
 BA>  NS> esentially packed EXE/COM files and stuffed all data on the drive all
 BA>  NS> order so your HD was bigger to DOS than it actually was
 BA> 
 BA> In the days of 40 meg hard drives, I used to love Stacker. Until it got
 BA> corrupt and I lost all of my data and had to re-format. Somehow I never
 BA> seemed to learn my lesson.
 BA> 

I know the original post was in 1999, however I just joined the network and I
thought I'd see how active this place is :)

I remember Stacker, Doubledisk was it? and several others that oddly enough
all ended up corrupting at some point to loose all data and start over again:
:)

Fun times! 
 
BA> Black Arrow  BA> 
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 BA>  * Origin: .-={ iNK!2 : bbs.inktwo.com : +o.Smooth }=-. (80:774/35)

-Dejavu (My first post at RetroNet)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
 * Origin: 1984 BBS (80:774/98)

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