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To: AHM who wrote (2500)	9/14/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>disk compression. One of the major advantages of NT, provided you are willing to run NTFS partitions which can't be accessed by DOS or Win 95/98 (except with NTFSDOS, see several earlier posts) is that you can selectively compress individual files or whole directories. The only thing the compression does for a whole disk is compress everything that goes on it. You can do this at any time in the future, though NT will then compress everything on the drive which could take a while. At any time you can compress a file, a directory (with or without subdirectories), or a whole drive. Compressing a drive or directory will compress subsequent copies you do into that location. This differs from Stacker and Drive Space in that it is built into the OS (you might think Drive Space is built in, but it's a layer on top, just like Stacker; the builtin notion was Microsoft's fiction-- marketing hype). NT compression is no-kidding part of the OS and compeletely transparent at all higher levels. No funny drives, no fake-o drivers, no nothin'. IMO, the way compression should be done. Spots