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From: rcleon@lso.win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: multivolume archive (zip) / backup
Keywords: zip, multivolume, tree-backup
Message-ID: <1299@tuewsd.win.tue.nl>
Date: 18 Jul 90 11:28:23 GMT
Sender: rcleon@win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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We have a couple of campuslicensed software packages 
we want to distribute to a selected group of users.
These packages are rather large, about 4 MB each.
We have installed the software on one machine and want
to use some sort of tree-backup/restore mechanism to create
a fast-and-easy installation distribution.
I thought about creating self-extracting ZIParchives that are
as large as a diskette (either 360k or 1.44M) wherein
the files and pathnames are stored, but there's no
way to specify the archivelength. Again, it has to be an EASY
installation, so I can't use PC-TOOLS PCBACKUP or a similar
program because they're too difficult for most users.
DOS BACKUP would be nice, but that doesn't give me any
filecompression facilities.
Can someone give me a hint on how to create such an
easy-installation distribution? Please reply to me via email.
Thanks,

-Leon
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