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In article <sal8.247.724202722@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
>>7. Where is the source code for InfoZip's stuff?
>Never seen it myself...

Should be available from the same site you get Info-Zip's Zip/UnZip.
Check wuarchive.wustl.edu via anonymous ftp if you can't find it
anywhere else.

>>Explaination:  I want to write a HD backup program for os2 which will
>>operate under either FAT or HPFS and use the TurboVision IDE style
>>interface. (if you know how I might implement the interface under gcc or
>>something else let me know)  Anyway, I plan to develope under BCC and
>>run it as a DOS app under OS2.  Is this possible? Feasible?
>Should work...you do realize that such a beastie couldn't access the files 
>OS/2 will have locked while it's running...that means the user would have to 
>boot from a floppy.

That's not correct.  OS/2-aware backup software can back up all files
on the hard disk provided that all other running tasks (which _may_
use locked files) are shut down.  (To read the INI files, you use the
API services -- you don't do a straight copy.)  Sytos, for example,
does exactly that.  (You can also introduce some additional logic
which warns the user of any locked files on the system and either
retries for a set period of time or invites the user to shut down the
running application.)

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