[WinMac] Re: Compression software for NT wanted

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:59:36 -0500

        Leonard forgot to mention that this can only be done on an NTFS partition;
and only if the cluster size is 4 kilobytes or less.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 09:40 PM 2/22/99 -0500, Leonard wrote:
>At 1:47 PM +1300 2/23/99, Owen Watson wrote:
>> I want a background utility that watches a particular NT4 folder, and
>> compresses everything in it (into separate files) that is over a
>> user-specified number of days old.
>
> Why not simply turn that folder into a "compressed folder"?
>This is a feature of NT4 where you can specify that all contents of a
>given folder should be kept compressed - not unlike StuffIt
>SpaceSaver used to do on the Mac.
>
>
>> Other zip functions would be welcome, of course. . .
>
> I personally like ZipMagic by Mijenix
>(<http://www.mijenix.com/> - it's what StuffIt will be like when it
>grows up. (and I'm one of the few people that can say that and get
>away with it ;).
>
>
>Leonard

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