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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:23:08 -0800, Pat A Brown
<nitebee@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:23:08 -0800, Pat A Brown
<nitebee@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> >>>I have a problem that I hope you may be able to help me with.  I often
>> >>>have a need to create graphic files that are several MB in size.  I
>> >>>then need to give these files to various people on various 
>> >>>computers.
>> 
>> >>>What I am after is a Compression program (or backup program) which
>> >>>will take a file of several MB and place it on several disks.  It
>> >>>needs to have some sort of standalone executable file which will then
>> >>>decompress and join the files at the other end.  It needs to be
>> >>>standalone for ease of use at other end.

I just use ARJ in these situations. Only problem being that it cannot
create multivolume selfextractors. But it does create up to 999 1.44MB
volumes which can that be copied to up to 999 disks. To reexpand them
one has to copy all that stuff back to the HDD and type the ARJ
extraction command which is quite simple.

To compress files type:
arj a [name of archive] -jm -v1440
at the dos prompt. (Replace [name of archive] by the filename of
course)

To reextract type 
arj x [name of archive]

If [name of archive] is preceeded by a driveletter it will compress
and expand directly to/from Floppydisk and prompt for next disks.
Deadsimple to me.

ARJ is just about everpresent. For example use www.shareware.com and
search ARJ.

mp