From: stefano@schatztr.adsp.sub.org (Stefan Ossowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce Path: toadflax.cs Subject: DiskExpander 2.1 available for ftp Reply-To: stefano@schatztr.adsp.sub.org (Stefan Ossowski) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc Organization: none Message-Number: 546 Approved: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu [ Stefan is the general manager of the company mentioned near the ] [ end of this announcement. -Dan ] Announcement of DiskExpander 2.1 -------------------------------- TITLE DiskExpander VERSION version 2.1 AUTHOR Jaroslav Mechacek & others DESCRIPTION DiskExpander is a brandnew tool which may DOUBLE the capacity of your hard disk and your floppy disk(s). DiskExpander is a program which multiplies your "virtual" disk space. It does so by compressing each file during writing (in real time). If you access the file later for reading, the file gets decompressed at once. After installing DiskExpander, you will be able to continue your work without making any changes to your environment. Unless you change the configuration of DiskExpander you will never again have to restart it manually. DiskExpander uses the XPK standard (by Urban Dominik Mueller & others) and lets you choose the most suitable compressor, e.g. (just two of many included XPK compressing libraries): Method Packing Unpacking Packing Unpacking Compression Memory Memory Speed Speed Ratio ------------------------------------------------------------- FAST 92 KB 0 KB 426 KB/s 1048 KB/s 32.7% NUKE 192 KB 0 KB 35 KB/s 613 KB/s 45.2% (statistics from the standard XPK Benchmark System [A3000/25 with SCRAM, AmigaVision being packed]) You can use any XPK compressor library. DiskExpander doesn't even need to have the XPKMaster.library (for reasons of memory consumption). All actions of DiskExpander are fully transparent. You will notice only a very slight delay during file operations. You don't have to worry about your files. If files are already better packed (e.g. lha-packed files) DiskExpander won't pack these once more. There are also some tools in the DiskExpander package. Namely: * DEStatistics which gives you the proof how your files have been packed and which compression libraries have been used. * DevicePacker which helps you to pack or unpack entire directories, partitions or even entire hard disks/floppy disks. It can be also useful to convert files which have been packed with an obselete compression library and pack them with a more sophisticated compression library. All programs have a graphical user interface but can also get started with command lines. DiskExpander is a carefully tested program. There have been hundreds of testers worldwide. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS none - ANY Amiga and Kickstart/WB (There are some libraries which may require more than 512K memory!) PRICE International (English GUI and manual) US$ 49,- Version Release date: Oktober, 1st 1993 German Version (German GUI and manual) DM 69,- Release date: available now! Dutch version (English GUI and Dutch manual) FL 89,- Release date: Oktober, 1st 1993 DISTRIBUTABILITY DiskExpander is a commercial product. You may buy it at your next dealer or order directly from Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe Gesellschaft fuer Software mbH Veronikastrasse 33 D-45131 Essen Germany eMail: stefano@schatztr.adsp.sub.org Dealer inquiries are welcome. OTHER DiskExpander is copy protected. That means you have to personalize your copy during installation. After that, the copy-protection won't disturb you!