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From: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Possible ShrinkIt addition???
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Date: 27 Apr 91 16:47:42 GMT
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Instead of sending this off directly to Andy Nicholas, I decided to post
it here to get some sort of input as to whether or not this is even
possible...

I use ShrinkIt (3.2.3) for doinf selective archiving of my hard drive on a
weekly basis.  I archive various sub-directories and files to offline
3.5" disks.  It's kind of time consuming to sit and wait for ShrinkIt to
finish one directory, and then select the next one, or next files.

I was wondering if it'd be possible to implement a scripting langauge into
ShrinkIt, so all you'd have to do is tell ShrinkIt to execute the commands
located in a file.  The commands would tell ShrinkIt while sub-directory
to archive, what files, or all files, and then tell it where to place the
archive.  Maybe even be able to tell ShrinkIt to display a message telling
the user to insert the next disk.

I dunno, maybe it's impracticle, but it's been tossing around in my head,
so I thought I'd get some input on it.

Thanks,
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