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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <2916@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 88 13:58:31 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Keywords: Zoo Arc Backup
Summary: filling a floppy disk with zoo archives

Somebody asks:

     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?

Since zoo does not create a temporary file when adding files to an
archive, just use it normally and you can fill a disk with zoo
archives.  Additional disk space is needed only when packing an archive
to recover space from deleted files/deleted comments etc., and even
this works across disks if you give the "." modifier to the "P"
command.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi