G'day, everybody in the PCBUILD mailing list.
Please pardon my obviously naive questions, I am new here, and I am trying to
find answers.
I am a CAD user, and since my machine has tons and tons of CAD (vector, scalar
and bitmap) files, I do need compressions. Currently I am using Win95, and I set
up my machine so that I am using the Drvspace and Cmpagent.exe (from the Plus!
package) compression agents to minimize the size of the CAD files.
However, my harddrive is not set on FAT32, (the one with 4096-byte sector), and
I think the current setup on my machine is that every sector is taking as much
as 32KB of harddrive real estate.
I have thought of upgrading to FAT32, with its more efficient 4096-bytes (4KB)
sector-size, but the Plus! package's Cmpagent.exe program doesn't work with the
FAT32 format.
Now that the Win98 is on the market, I am thinking of buying a copy and upgrade
my machine to it. But before I do that, I have several questions to ask the wise
gurus in this list:
o I have heard of the horror stories of how buggy Win98 is.
Are the horror stories still true?
Is Win98 still hopelessly buggy?
o If I get Win98, I'd get them from the computer stores like
CompUSA or ComputerCity, and there _is_ a possibility that what
I'd get is CD-ROMs filled with the buggy version of Win98.
So, here're the questions about getting bug-fixes ---
Where can I get the "bugfixes" for the Win98?
Are they available from online sources,
such as microsoft.com?
If the bugfixes are available, are they FREE?
Or do I have to pay for the "priviledge"?
o There is a Plus! package with the Win98, and (I heard) it
does have a Cmpagent.exe compression agent in it.
Will the Win98 Cmpagent.exe works with FAT32?
How reliable is the Win98 Cmpagent.exe,
compare with its Win95 cousin?
Is the compression ratio of Win98's Cmpagent.exe as
good as (or better than) it's Win95 cousin?
o Currently I have 2 4GB IDE HD, and I am thinking of
upgrading my machine with 2 more 8GB EIDE HD.
While I know FAT32 will break the 2GB partition limit,
I do not know if Win98's Drvspace and/or Cmpagent.exe
support > 2GB partition or not.
Has anybody here successfully set up Win98, and run
Drvspace _with_ Cmpagent.exe on their machine?
Can Win98 Cmpagent.exe runs on a drivesize
larger than 2GB?
Does anybody here have any answer(s) for me?
Any help would be _VERY_ much appreciated.
Happy Holidays !!!
Jim Givens
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