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From: keshava@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Sanjay Keshava)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: is there an archive pgm with an -except flag?
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Date: 13 Apr 90 06:53:04 GMT
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>> 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?  
>> > 

Since I just started reading this thread, I don't know if this has
already been mentioned.  I remember having this problem a long time
ago and solved it by archiving everything and then writing a batch
file to delete the unwanted files from the archive.

This is convenient only if the number of unwanted files is small and
the names are specifically known.

One of the later pkzip versions has a -x switch to exclude files from
the archive.


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