Re: Correction to ZIP: Mass Removal of Archive Bit on All Directories

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote: ≪ maybe an archive bit on the directory meant
"back everything up, regardless of file bits on/off≫

I don't think so. I still use xcopy with the /m switch (though to Direct
CDs, not floppies), which works just the way Robert Orndorff described,
and it works. But all this discussion is making me rethink the process.
On a modern system, files are getting dragged and dropped all over the
network; then I often copy a few files (XyWrite and dBase files are small
enough for lots of them to fit on a floppy) to a floppy to work on
elsewhere (home to office and vice versa, or even from home desktop to
laptop). So archive bits are being switched six ways on Sunday, and I'm
probably NOT backing up all the files I want backed up. I'm therefore
thinking of using the /d: (date) switch instead, which should guarantee
that EVERYTHING changed since the last backup will be backed up,
regardless of whether or not it was copied somewhere else.

Patricia