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From: kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "secure" diskette?
Message-ID: <4908@plains.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 09:57:39 GMT
References: <1990May25.165210.25386@cbnewsl.att.com>
Reply-To: kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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You could use PKZip/PKUnZip, and specify storage only (no compression) if 
you are concerned about the time overhead.  Specify encryption when Zipping,
and have the application UnZip with the appropriate password.  With no
decompression involved, the read time of a file should be very close to that
of a file that is not Zipped, except for the time it takes to load PKUnZip
into memory.  And you can reconstruct any or all files to any drive, or pipe
the output anywhere you like.  You can add, update, or delete files from the
Zipfile as necessary.  And if you change the extension on the name of the
Zipfile, no one even has to know that it was Zipped.

Kerry Person
(kperson@plains.NoDak.edu)