Hi, Here's the end of your basically accurate DOS and Disk Compression
story. When MS settled their suit with Stac Electronics and payed them
something like at least 114 million dollars, they released MS-DOS 6.22 with
DriveSpace which contained some of the Stacker algorithm but was not a copy
or clone of Stacker. A modified DriveSpace came with the DOS 7.X component
in Windows 95.
Novell released Novell DOS 7.0 with a subset of Stacker version 3.0 which
came to Caldera and stayed in OpenDOS 7.0, 7.01 and 7.02 and also in DR-DOS
7.02.
IBM actually had the SuperStor disk compression in PC-DOS 6.1 as well as in
PC-DOS 6.3. PC-DOS 7.00 has a full implementation of Stacker 4.0 for DOS
and Windows 3.X included in the package, not a subset of functions. Having
not seen PC-DOS 2000, I don't know what it contains, but would be willing to
guess that it might still have Stacker 4.0, maybe with some updates. One
would hope that such updates might include ability to recognize and display
and deal with long filenames.
PTS-DOS 6.70 has its own disk compression and file compression software
written by the program's Russian developers.
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Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA
And, the driver compresses EVERYTHING, not just EXE COM.
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