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Silly boy! Don't you know that PKZIP 2.04g will "span" removeable media? I
do this all the time - it's easy to get a large program (2-8MB) such as the TS
upgrades (which are single EXE modules that can't be separated) on a few
floppies without having to calculate the file sizes. A full TS is a problem
since a PKZIPed TS can be over 100MB. That's 66 floppies. And about three
hours! But a .DAT file can be shrunk by 60% by PKZIP, so could be copied
separately (25 floppies :-) But for larger disks such as the ZIP (no
relation), you don't need to - use that spanning feature (parameter -&w will
span disks, automatically erasing each disk before copying.)
Actually I'm not sure that PKZIP will span with a ZIP drive - it may not know
about the larger capacity. Someone try it and give us a report - I don't have
a ZIP drive :-)
donc
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Subject: Re: Moving Tradestation?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 14:25:19 -1000 (HST)
From: Ron Augustine <RonAug@xxxxxxxx>
To: Al Witko <awitko@xxxxxxxx>, omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Depends on what resources you have available. A Zip drive or some external
drive with at least 100mb of space works well. There are many ways of doing
it-- someone else might be able to offer a simpler one.
A few steps are required. You need to figure out how much space your
current TS requires after it has been ZIPped. Use the PKZIP program
(version 2.04g or later) to compress your TS files.
In a DOS Window, type the command:
pkzip C:\tsbackup.zip /s /e c:\omega\*.*
This will create a compressed file of your entire Omega directory and all the
files. You will need to check the size of the tsbackup.zip file that is
created to see if it will fit on whatever external media you're going to copy
it to. If it's too big, you will need to segment a larger file (such as
40BONN.DAT if you're using BMI) to a separate compressed file and exclude it
from your other ZIP file. Copy your ZIPped file(s) to the external media.
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