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  • Stacker 4/DOS false Out of Disk Space issue

    From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 30 13:09:10 2019
    Hi! I have the DOS version of Stacker installed on a Win98 mini-tower for the purpose of compressing a ZIP100 disk for networking to a DOS laptop. Now, I have an issue with the disk reporting a Disk Full message. When I write to the disk, I get a
    General Failure from DOS. I press F for Fail and get a Disk Full message. The disk couldn't possibly be full. :/ I tried copying the disk contents to a hard drive, removing the Stacker volume, recreating the volume, then coping the files back. The
    first time I did this, it worked. The last time I did this, I got the same problem. Is this a known bug in Stacker? How do I fix it?

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  • From Michael Kennedy@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Wed Oct 23 00:32:52 2019
    On 30/09/2019 21:09, Harry Potter wrote:
    Hi! I have the DOS version of Stacker installed on a Win98 mini-tower for the purpose of compressing a ZIP100 disk for networking to a DOS laptop. Now, I have an issue with the disk reporting a Disk Full message. When I write to the disk, I get a
    General Failure from DOS. I press F for Fail and get a Disk Full message. The disk couldn't possibly be full. :/ I tried copying the disk contents to a hard drive, removing the Stacker volume, recreating the volume, then coping the files back. The
    first time I did this, it worked. The last time I did this, I got the same problem. Is this a known bug in Stacker? How do I fix it?

    I cannot help on your specific issues, except to say that you MUST use
    only the very latest release(s) of Stacker.

    Stacker was a super product, and was extremely popular, but it had a few
    major, elusive, show-stopper, bugs for most of its life - though they
    were eventually fixed.

    - Mike

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to Michael Kennedy on Sat Oct 26 10:48:21 2019
    On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 7:32:54 PM UTC-4, Michael Kennedy wrote:
    I cannot help on your specific issues, except to say that you MUST use
    only the very latest release(s) of Stacker.

    Mike, I thank you for your input. Now, where online can I find the latest release of Stacker?

    Stacker was a super product, and was extremely popular, but it had a few major, elusive, show-stopper, bugs for most of its life - though they
    were eventually fixed.

    I have JAM, but it doesn't seem to work on Win98's DOS. :( I use DriveSpace in Windows mode but don't want to use it in DOS mode, as I want to use QEMM for DOS, and QEMM is incompatible with DriveSpace 3 for DOS.

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 26 11:09:28 2019
    I Googled online for Stacker Disk Compression and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_compression. It gives me a set of programs from which to choose. I'm going to try them out to see which is best for my needs. :)

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 26 11:48:38 2019
    I found XtraDrive 1.10 and plan to try it out on my Win98 system the next time I go to my mother's house. :)

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  • From Michael Kennedy@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Mon Oct 28 13:08:50 2019
    On 26/10/2019 19:48, Harry Potter wrote:
    I found XtraDrive 1.10 and plan to try it out on my Win98 system the next time I go to my mother's house. :)

    Sounds like you're making good progress... (I also don't recall
    XtraDrive - those neurons again!).

    - Mike

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  • From Michael Kennedy@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Mon Oct 28 13:07:03 2019
    On 26/10/2019 18:48, Harry Potter wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 7:32:54 PM UTC-4, Michael Kennedy wrote:
    I cannot help on your specific issues, except to say that you MUST use
    only the very latest release(s) of Stacker.

    Mike, I thank you for your input. Now, where online can I find the latest release of Stacker?

    I've no recollection now about the version codes, nor where you might
    find them. I'll search through some ancient stuff here, in case I find
    and info.

    I have JAM, but it doesn't seem to work on Win98's DOS. :( I use DriveSpace in Windows mode but don't want to use it in DOS mode, as I want to use QEMM for DOS, and QEMM is incompatible with DriveSpace 3 for DOS.

    I don't recall JAM. I always thought that Stacker was the best (notwithstanding!).

    - Mike

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to Michael Kennedy on Fri Nov 22 09:33:54 2019
    On Monday, October 28, 2019 at 9:08:50 AM UTC-4, Michael Kennedy wrote:
    Sounds like you're making good progress... (I also don't recall
    XtraDrive - those neurons again!).

    - Mike

    Uhh...XtraDrive seems to need some special hardware. :( Back to Stacker. Is there another way to fix the original issue? Is there a version of Stacker later than 4? If so, where can I find it? Google didn't give me it. :(

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 22 23:40:41 2019
    On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 2:21:09 AM UTC-5, JJ wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:33:54 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter wrote:

    Uhh...XtraDrive seems to need some special hardware. :(

    Only the early version.

    I just found ZipMagic at http://zipmagic.co/. Does it support Win98?

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Sat Nov 23 14:20:46 2019
    On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:33:54 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter wrote:

    Uhh...XtraDrive seems to need some special hardware. :(

    Only the early version.

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Sat Nov 23 00:21:55 2019
    On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 2:40:42 AM UTC-5, Harry Potter wrote:
    I just found ZipMagic at http://zipmagic.co/. Does it support Win98?

    Never mind. It doesn't. :(

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 7 13:38:17 2020
    Uhh... I'm still looking for a solution to my problem with the Disk Full error in Stacker. :(

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