Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!oracle!news From: pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: dbmaster Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 90 16:48:41 GMT References: <90186.150319ART100@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 24 In article <90186.150319ART100@psuvm.psu.edu> ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) writes: I downloaded dbmaster and it seems pretty nice. However, at 539 blocks, the shrinkit archive is too large to be of much use to anyone without a large ram disk or 3.5" or hard drive. The docs say the program can be used with 2 5.25" disks, but doesn't give any info on how the files should be split up for that. I'd like to repack the whole thing in smaller .shk files for this purpose before I upload it anywhere. Does anyone know the breakdown for 5.25" disks? I'd just like to add that this is where Andy McFadden's NuLib UNIX archiver is a big win. It allows one to use the resources of a much larger machine to maniuplate/massage archives into a more palatable form, (i.e. remove all unnecessary printer drivers from the archive, and split the archive in two for floppy use)... So for Andy's case, has anyone tried building Nulib on a VMS platform? Most of the code looks pretty portable... -Paul Nakada -- Paul Nakada | Oracle Corporation | pnakada@oracle.com