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From: nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true?
Message-ID: <140007@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 21:15:31 GMT
References: <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: HP McMinville Division
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How about a set of tools that would archive a whole package directory?

Say I have software in \123 \AUTOCAD \VENTURA \WINDOW which I use once
a while, it would be nice to have a program run at regular intervals
that would compress these directories (say using ZIP) if they have not
been reference since X days.  Another utiliy would uncompress them on
demand after checking there is enough disk space before starting the
de-compression.  This would provide more space then just compessing
binaries.

Note that some software install themselves in multiple root directories

say \GEMBOOT  \GEMSYS   \GEMAPPS