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Laboch@t-online.de (Christiane + Mario Laboch) wrote:

>darrendr@powerup.com.au (Darren Drysdale) wrote:

>>>Hi All,

>>>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.

>>>The size of the files means that they will not fit onto a 1.4MB disk
>>>(even when compressed).  I could use the standard MS Windows, Windows
>>>95 or DOS Backup to transport these files, but not every person I give
>>>the files to will have MS Backup (or the correct version) on their
>>>machine.

>>>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.

>>>The program will preferably be in DOS or Windows 3.1 format (i use
>>>Windows 95, but many of my clients/suppliers don't))

>>>If anyone knows of such a program, could you please e-mail me with the
>>>details ASAP - my wife won't let me spend enough time on the net to
>>>monitor newsgroups. :-(

>>>If possible I would like the program to be on the net so I can
>>>download it immediately.  I need a solution urgently.

>>>Thanks in advance
>>>Darren
>>>darrendr@powerup.com.au


>>>--------------------
>>>Darren Drysdale
>>>Brisbane, Australia.

>I think ARJ since version 2.50 will do what you want.
>arj a -varchivsize -je Archiv files
>will create a selfextracting multivolume archive. The first file is
>the EXE- file which will extract and join the files.
>This funktion  is limited to 362000 byte in the shareware version, so
>you will have to register.
>The shareware version is available at many servers in the net.
>One address I know is ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/arj250a.exe.
>Hope this helps.
>Mario

>_______________________________________
>Mario Laboch        
>Laboch@t-online.de  *PGP key available*


If you don't have anything yet tomarrow I'll E-mail you a dos program
that "Cuts" files to fill 1.44 meg disks...all you need is this
program and it reconnects the files .....it's cool but I gotta DL it
from my friend....it's not even shareware!!......if you can't wait go
ahead and download a limited shity ARJ program....!