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: dos command question


drptop70ss
May 18th, 05, 11:11 AM
Does anyone know the DOS command to copy a file that is too large for a diskette to multiple diskettes? I have a hard drive that I want to dump its contents to disk but need it to copy to multiple disks to get all the files, and some files alone are too large for a diskette.

jeffc
May 18th, 05, 11:24 AM
I can't think of a DOS command that will do that. I used to use PKZIP for that. Now, I put everything on my thumb drive or a CD.

Dean
May 18th, 05, 12:23 PM
PK Zip is what I always used

drptop70ss
May 18th, 05, 4:40 PM
yep, pkzip was it, been too long since I had to do that!

jonh
May 19th, 05, 10:31 AM
pkzip -& a:\backup.zip c:\filename.exm

a:\backup.zip is the name of the file to be created...
c:\filename.exm is the file that will be compressed across the discs.

Go to pkware.com and get the info. You can copy your entire drive with pkware. Good luck Jon

crakarjax
May 25th, 05, 1:46 AM
time for an upgrade?

slowtalker
May 25th, 05, 8:14 AM
why not use backup?