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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2002 10:42:19 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: more on backup using compression software, win

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Ray Davison wrote:
>
> I used winzip to to create a zip of the entire drive.
> I used Info-Zip unzip to restore. I believe I used
> "unzip zipc.zip -d C:\".
>
> The only problem seemed to be that the long file
> names of the subdirectories had been truncated.
> I browsed the zip file using File Commander/2,
> and saw long file names, so apparently they were
> captured. FC/2 can see long file names but is not
> able to write them to FAT.

Maybe the Windows file system driver creates FAT entries that OS/2
doesn't create, hence you don't get the long file names.

If that's the case, you either need an OS/2 driver that writes to the
Windows file system or you need to unzip under Windows. (To unzip under
Windows, the zip file must be on a partition that Windows can read so
you either need a Windows driver that reads HPFS or you need to store
the zipped backup on a FAT partition which Windows can read. Or maybe
you can access the zip file from a different machine on your network.
Or maybe you can unzip under OS/2 to an HPFS partition and then XCOPY
over the network under Windows. Gee, I'm full of lots of theoretical
convoluted ideas today.)

Disclaimer: I don't use Windows and haven't the slightest idea what
filesystem it uses.

- Mr. Quack

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