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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:30:05 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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In <200110080855.AA92733650@oco.net>, on 10/08/01
at 08:55 AM, "mrakijas" said:

>Isn't there a parameter in zip that limits the file size and creates
>multiple files of a limited size? As I remember, there was one which
>allowed you to make a larger archive that was split so that you could
>span floppies. I presume you can use that to span the file size
>limitation.

pkzip will span to floppies. I don't know that it will work as expected
if the zip file is written to non-removable media. I'm pretty sure
InfoZip does not support spanning. It does support zipsplit which will
split a large zip into pieces and reverse the process.

Steven

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