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From: xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!)
Keywords: list, dir, pipe:, loadwb, docs, rad1:, locks, selection, huge disks
Message-ID: <12968@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 22:24:37 GMT
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Reply-To: xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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[Following up my own posting; no class!]

I work in a large ram, no HD: environment (Amiga 2000 with 9Mbytes, 2 floppies).
It would be extremely nice if the large files I can now make in memory could be
supported as multi-floppy-volume files.  This is usually a mainframe feature
for magnetic tape files, not a micro feature, but it would sure be nice to
capture my normal software development environment in a zoo'ed file (it takes
up about 2.2 mbytes after compression) onto three diskettes, then
recover at my next cold boot with just one "zoo -extract" command and a couple
of disk swaps. As is, I have to do a couple of trial zoo passes to get the 
right partitioning of files to match the size of each diskette. And that means
about an hour's extra work.

Again, thanks for listening.

well!xanthian
Kent, the man from xanth, now just another echo from The Well.