Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekirl!keithe
From: keithe@tekirl.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <1376@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 May 88 18:04:08 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> <25745@clyde.ATT.COM> <35@achel.UUCP> <179@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekirl.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
Lines: 28
Keywords: Zoo Arc Backup

In article <179@infmx.UUCP> greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk) writes:
>In article <35@achel.UUCP>, derek@achel.UUCP (derek) writes:
>> ...is there a way to 
>> automate the archiving facility so that I can fill, or nearly fill a disk
>> with one or more archives, that I have overlooked?
>
>ARC 5.20 has a couple of environment variables (ARCTEMP and TEMP) which
>tell it where to build the temporary ARC file.  By setting this to another
>disk (e.g SET ARCTEMP=b:) you can build the temporary file whereever you
>want.  Unfortunately, it then tries to RENAME the file, which you cannot
>do across disks in MSDOS.

Try playing with the dos "join" command which will allow you to make
drive B: into a subdirectory of drive A:. I think the sequence might
go something like this:

	JOIN B: A:\DRIVEB		makes B: a subdirectory of A:
	SET ARCTEMP=A:\DRIVEB		have ARC work use B: without
					   even realizing it...
	ARC X ARFCILE
		(chug, chug, chug)
	JOIN B: /d			un-join drive B: from A:

Let me know if this works... I'm just extrapolating what I've done with
my machine. (Alternatively you might have a ramdisk that you could JOIN
to A: instead of your second floppy..)

keith