From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 5/18/19 10:57 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:   
   > I like the idea.  I don't know that I would use it myself.  But I think   
   > it can work, especially if you're tight on disk space.   
      
   I have no idea if it would work as desired or not, but I think I'd   
   investigate if it's possible to use drive compression with multiple   
   small compressed drive image files for each application.   
      
   Mount the image for an application, run the application, unmount the image.   
      
   That would allow the existing drive compression routines to do their   
   thing, thus eliminating the need to extract & repack the archive.  It   
   might inadvertently address the fragmentation issue too.   
      
   I don't know if you can get the compressed drive to mount on a directory   
   in '98.  But I bet you could use another drive letter and then create   
   the directory structure on it.   
      
   Let's use B: as the drive letter.  (I like to make use of the otherwise   
   unused letters.)   
      
   Create a compressed drive image, which is not automatically mounted.   
   Then have your script (batch file / VBScript / et al.) mount the   
   compressed drive image on B:.  Install / run / manage your application.   
   Unmount the compressed drive image.  So your example would install and   
   run the Amiga Emulator from B:\Emulators\Amiga.  }:-)   
      
      
      
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