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  Win98/DOSBox Compression? Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-18 08:34 -0700
    Re: Win98/DOSBox Compression? Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-11-03 19:55 -0400
      Re: Win98/DOSBox Compression? Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-10 06:44 -0800
        Re: Win98/DOSBox Compression? Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2011-11-10 08:41 -0800
          Re: Win98/DOSBox Compression? Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-10 09:31 -0800
            Re: Win98/DOSBox Compression? Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-11 05:42 -0800

#612 — Win98/DOSBox Compression?

What is the best way to compress FAT32 drives under Win98?  UPX works
well but only on executables.  AppZip crashes every time I use it.
WinMount is simply incompatible.

I also want to compress information from within the DOSBox
environment.
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Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

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#616

Harry Potter wrote:
>What is the best way to compress FAT32 drives under Win98?  UPX works
>well but only on executables.  AppZip crashes every time I use it.
>WinMount is simply incompatible.
>
>I also want to compress information from within the DOSBox
>environment.

Don't know about the last point, but Windows 95 & 98 included a disk
compresion utility call DoubleSpace/DriveSpace.

Also search for "Stacker"
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#619

On Nov 3, 6:55 pm, Roberto Waltman <use...@rwaltman.com> wrote:
> Don't know about the last point, but Windows 95 & 98 included a disk
> compresion utility call DoubleSpace/DriveSpace.
>
The hard drive in question is a FAT32 hard drive.  Only 2.1GB is
usable, but I don;t want to go trough all the work to repartition and
reformat the whole hard drive.  DriveSpace only recognizes FAT12/16.

> Also search for "Stacker"

I tried.  I found limited information on it and don't know where to
get it or even if it supports FAT32.  Thanks, anyway!

I can still compress floppies, though, but that would only give me
~2.7MB a pop.

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#620

On Nov 10, 8:44 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The hard drive in question is a FAT32 hard drive.  Only 2.1GB is
> usable, but I don;t want to go trough all the work to repartition and
> reformat the whole hard drive.  DriveSpace only recognizes FAT12/16.

If you right-click a hard drive in Windows 9x there should be an
option to compress the drive.  It definitely works with FAT32 drives.

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#621

On Nov 10, 11:41 am, Jim Leonard <mobyga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you right-click a hard drive in Windows 9x there should be an
> option to compress the drive.  It definitely works with FAT32 drives.

I currently don't have access to the computer in question, but I'll
try to remember that.  Thank you. :)

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#622

On Nov 10, 12:31 pm, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I currently don't have access to the computer in question, but I'll
> try to remember that.  Thank you. :)

I read online that DriveSpace doesn't support FAT32 compression. :
(  Any other ideas?

BTW: I have been using WinRAR to compress the data and batch files to
uncompress it for use and recompress it after use.  I even use a RAM
drive for temporary storage.

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