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not good enough for important back ups. For the casual
user who just wants to compact the odd program however, it
is a good buy. After all, you can't go wrong for six quid
can you?
Software 42 is about to release ArcFS 2, which should
be faster, and have all the previous bugs removed. I have
used the read only version and it is much faster than
ArcFS 1, and has all the main bugs found in the original
read only version removed. Although I haven't seen it yet,
I would guess that the read/write version will be an
essential buy if you liked the original. According to S42,
ArcFS 2 retails for £20, but still looks a good buy
compared to the original. I'll do a proper review of '2'
as soon as I've used it.
Packdir
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Although Packdir compacts things in a fairly similar
way to ArcFS, the methods used to execute the program are
in fact totally different.
Packdir, as the name suggests, can compact anything in
a standard directory. All you have to do is load the
program (which is fully Risc OS compliant) and drag your