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Geez! -- I can't believe you're serious!!!
My TS requires 214 Mb of space when ZIPped -- that's 153 floppies-- If
you've got time to jam 153 floppies in and out of 2 drives and also deal
with the media failure rate of the disks--- and all the additional time
required to re-zip the files that were corrupted in the PKZIP Spanning
procedure-- Go For It!
I'll take the route of copying it to 3 Zip Disks-- or better yet sending it
across the network, which is cheaper to set up than the cost of a Zip Drive...
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At 07:15 PM 3/29/98 +0000, you wrote:
>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.)
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> 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 :-)
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>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
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>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.
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>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.
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>In a DOS Window, type the command:
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>pkzip C:\tsbackup.zip /s /e c:\omega\*.*
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>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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