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From: dinapoli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ron DiNapoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: BackupST limitations?
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.172310.25325@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 17:23:10 GMT
Sender: dinapoli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ron DiNapoli)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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There's been some talk about BackupST over the past month or so, so I 
decided to try it out.   Nice program!  However I've had a problem with
trying to backup my "fonts" directory for TeX.  There are a lot of files
in this one directory (and lots of subdirectories as I'm sure users of 
TeX know very well) and after scanning through the majority of them 
(calculating sizes) it doesn't seem to be able to open any more files.
Upon returning to the desktop, the fonts directory appears to be empty.
Sure enough, when I reboot, everything reappears.  This behavior is similar
to what you get when you get bitten by the folder limit bug.  However I
have the FOLDRXXX program and set it to FOLDR999.  BackupST still had
problems.  

This is not a big inconvenience to me because I have the original .zoo
files that the fonts came in.  So there's really no reason to back them 
up all the time.  Anyone else have a problem like this?  I also tried
to zoo the whole directory and it had problems too!

Ron D.