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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: shareware 'fastback' wanted
Keywords: compression to multiple disks
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Date: 26 Jun 91 22:51:29 GMT
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aadm@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Atkins D. Michael) writes:

>now for my question - i would like to find a vanilla fastback-like
>procedure. maybe a shell that would work with pkarc/pkzip/et. that
>would allow consecutive disks for backup and that i could share
>with all sites reguardless of dos version.

>and leads/suggestions/recommendations would be greatly
>appreciated. 

It's not particularly pretty (but then again, it doesn't sound like that
really matters to you), but you could use PKZIP (et al) and then some
kind of SPLIT utility (such as my own SPLIT.EXE) that will split up the
big archive into floppy sized pieces.

As I say, this isn't particularly pretty, but it does work.  I use a
variation of it on a regular basis.
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