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From: Leon Oninckx
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 11:28
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 11:28
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We have a couple of campuslicensed software packages we want to distribute to a selected group of users. These packages are rather large, about 4 MB each. We have installed the software on one machine and want to use some sort of tree-backup/restore mechanism to create a fast-and-easy installation distribution. I thought about creating self-extracting ZIParchives that are as large as a diskette (either 360k or 1.44M) wherein the files and pathnames are stored, but there's no way to specify the archivelength. Again, it has to be an EASY installation, so I can't use PC-TOOLS PCBACKUP or a similar program because they're too difficult for most users. DOS BACKUP would be nice, but that doesn't give me any filecompression facilities. Can someone give me a hint on how to create such an easy-installation distribution? Please reply to me via email. Thanks, -Leon -- | Leon Oninckx, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands | email : rcleon@win.tue.nl, rcleon@heitue51.bitnet, rcleon@urc.tue.nl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!tuewsd!rcleon From: rcleon@lso.win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: multivolume archive (zip) / backup Keywords: zip, multivolume, tree-backup Message-ID: <1299@tuewsd.win.tue.nl> Date: 18 Jul 90 11:28:23 GMT Sender: rcleon@win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx) Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 22