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From: sondeen@venera.isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: de-fragmenting with Zoo
Message-ID: <14236@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 90 17:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: sondeen@isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen)
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Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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This request concerns the relative merit of using defragmenting
programs compared to just restoring from ZOO or PKZIP backups.  That
is, given that the defragment program recommends you first do a backup
(and believe me this is handly as REFORMAT15 chewed up my Dos 3.3
32Meg C: files), why not just del *.* after the ZOO/PKZIP save (having
saved with directories stored) and then restore from the save -- eg:

c:
zoo a d:allfiles *.*
del *.*
zoo x// d:allfiles

I've done this and it seems to have defragmented the files, in less than
the 30 minutes claimed for REFORMAT to run on 32 Megs.   Thanks, /jeff
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