Re: Off topic question.

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I think, I think I found the solution, while waiting for an
 answer. Using PkZip for DOS, the only reasonable OS, as far
 as I am concerned, I issued the following command:

 pkzip -&fu  c:\xy4\*.*

 It took 5 diskettes. I compressed everything, including the
 HLP file and Editor.exe. It worked well. I think that I
 could have gotten away with omitting the "f" option.

 This is an easy way to transport one's latest "versions" of all
 of the XY4 files to a new computer, or a new old computer.

 Many thanks for your offer of help, but there is nothing that
 sharpens the mind like the need to do something.

 M.W. Poirier

 P.S.: For what it is worth, IBM2TIF.exe must not be a necessary
 file, since I don't have it in my directory, and everything appears
 to work well.

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Leslie Bialler wrote:

> First _copy_ the editor.exe to one floppy. No point in compressing it.
> You won't save very much space. Then, there's another exe file
> IBM2TIF.EXE. I have no idea what that's for. I have never used it.
> Hopefully Carl will tell us all what it is and whether it's still
> needed. If so, copy it to another floppy.
>
> Then compress everything else but the help file. You may want to divide
> this into files starting A-H, I-M, etc. That way you should have four
> *.zip files and you can evaluate how many more floppies you need.
>
> This will also give you a chance to clean out the folder. Amazing what
> you might be able to delete when you concentrate on that, yes?
>
> Finally, sigh, the help file must be dealt with. You will probably have
> to compress it across two floppies. This can be done with the old dos
> version of PKZip, but I'm afraid that I must quote Bismarck here, "there
> were only three people who understood that [treaty]. Two are dead. I am
> the third, and I have forgotten."
>
> But seriously, the odds are excellent that Carl or Patricia or Harry
> have not.
>
> Hope this helps.

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>
> M.W. Poirier wrote:
>
> > (Off topic...)
> >
> > I'd like to copy my XY4 directory, compressed (using Pkzip,
> > or some similar programme), on to 1.44 floppies. Obviously,
> > this will require that I produce more than one ZIPped file.
> > What is the most economical way of doing this? I though of
> > creating one giant ZIPped file and the split it into segments
> > of appropriate length, but I find that re-uniting the segments
> > does not always work, at least, not using the programme that
> > I have available. Is there another way?
> >
> > M.W. Poirier
> >
> >
> >
>
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