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Re: Compressing floppies with Drivespace
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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:45:38 -0800
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On 30 Sep 98 at 19:56, Derek Buchanan wrote:

>   I have been curious about whether not it is possible ot use
> Drivespace to compress floppies.  I think there may be problems
> taking them to other computers if the the version of drivespace is
> different. Has anyone had any experience with this?  Any pros or
> cons?

  I've always assumed that the overhead involved would be too much
for such a small device, but I've never actually done the experiment.
A lot of my Zip disks are DriveSpaced; that's why the Zip is on a
Win9x machine and not NT.

David G

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