Mark Magill wrote in a message to Casey Tompkins:
MM>         Other than possible wasted space. I once ran a
MM> compressed 65 meg drive, which was nearly full as I was
MM> running thousands of those little *.MSG files on it for my
MM> mail bases. The drive failed (bearing went out) and I
MM> started copying what I could possibly fit to a 42 meg
MM> UNcompressed drive. Guess what? They all fit... with much
Casey's Dictum:  "There's always something..."   But 
that, of course, was not the original posters' position.  He seemed to think 
that there was something fundamentally unsound to using compression.  And 
_that_ is a silly thing to think...
MM>         Good advice on laptops, too. PC Computing ran a
MM> story once about probelms with laptops and Sleep Mode. Seems
MM> they'd swap memory to disk while sleeping... INCLUDING the
MM> Double-space device driver needed to UNsleep.. 
Ouch.
--- timEd-B9
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