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From: jham@mcs213g.cs.umr.edu (John Ham)
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Subject: Re: Copy 4 Meg file to 1.2 Meg floppies?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 04:11:21 GMT
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The current version of ARC (called ARCPlus - it is a commercial version
which was $35 bucks as of January) will do a multi-volume file, and has
all sorts of menu crap for those who are interested.  You can extract
one file out of anywhere in the multi-volume file, but the format is
not exactly the same as ARC (both formats - one for single file & one
for multi-disk - come with the package) so some of the update stuff
works a LOT slower, but if you just want a BACKUP/RESTORE replacement
this is definitely a good choice.  You can redirect your restore, use
wildcards, etc. etc. etc.

P.S. Yes I know all about the PKzip/ARC wars, and I have both.  Phil
let us down by not ever doing the multi-volume zip stuff (promised for
over a year), so I bought ARC.  I use ARC for backup/restore to floppy,
and pkzip for archive from HD->HD.  Compression ratios are actually
very similar, although both claim to be better.  

jham@cs.umr.edu