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Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:43:24 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Need help with XCOMP

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jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
> Before trying the zip option,

Regarding zip and pkzip: the OS/2 version of pkzip has a file count
maximum (somewhere around 2,000 files I think), and iirc both of them
have a 2GB maximum (though I can't remember if this is the source
maximum or the .zip file size maximum).

> I am thinking of copying c: to l: by running Peter Skye's
> favorite, dsync, from my maintenance partition,

It's true that I prefer dsync over xcopy. I use dsync to make my daily
disk-to-disk backups.

> comparing the contents of each drive via chkdsk,

How do you do that?

> and then running xcomp.

Remember that xcomp does *not* compare EA's. It only compares the
"data" portion of the files.

Xcomp (written by Roman Stangl) was how I first discovered that xcopy
didn't copy "all files", causing my switch to dsync.

- Peter

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