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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:26:32 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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In <3BC1EE95.16A3@peterskye.com>, on 10/08/01
at 11:21 AM, Peter Skye said:

>Even if I _knew_ what directories I would have tomorrow and the size of
>their trees I don't think I want to manually administer what goes into
>each archive.

Feathers all a-ruffled?

> any root directory < 'D' goes into arc1.zip
> 'D' =< 'L' goes into arc2.zip
> 'L' =< 'LM' goes into arc3.zip
> 'LM' =< 'R' goes into arc4.zip
> etc.

You should be able to do this with the existing zip argument structure.
Have you tried?

zip -r zipa \a*

>I think the old DOS Fastback allowed you to do that, and maybe Back
>Again/2000 does too -- I'll go check the documentation. XCOPY and Zip
>don't allow it.

BA2K can do this with a specification like:

\a*\*

Steven

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