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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: is there an archive pgm with an -except flag?
Keywords: arc
Message-ID: <1990Apr8.052856.1494@uwasa.fi>
Date: 8 Apr 90 05:28:56 GMT
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In article <1990Apr7.192100.8699@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu> sobol@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Steven Sobol) writes:
>In article <1649@wjvax.UUCP> mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes:
>>The other day I needed to archive a large directory, but didn't want to
>>include certain files.  Which got me to thinking... is there an archive
>>program that takes an "except" argument?  
>
>The latest version of PKZip (v1.10) supports an exclude option. If you

Right.  And there also is another solution (especially if you are
using some other archiver).  It is a small utility called no.com,
and is used like

   no thisfile.bat pkpak u arch *.bat 

It is available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi as (/pc/pd2/)
no.zip.  As you can figure out, it is useful for other, similar
purposes as well.  What it actually does is to make the file
temporarily hidden for the duration of the command line.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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