Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/03/19/19:28:09
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>
> Babcock
> > How awkward. My BBS has only a 20MB hard disk......
>
> Gzipped tar files are generally about 80% the size of the corresponding zip
> files. But tar is not (?) available on MSDOS. What may not be widely
> known is that zip at zero compression is an excellent archiver. The
> corresponding gzipped files are a few hundred bytes smaller than their taz
> counterparts. I keep the pair of batch files which follow, on hand for
> serious file stuffing.
>
> - - - - - GZIP_DIR.BAT - - - - -
> REM Usage: GZIP_DIR TREE ARCHIVE, where TREE is the directory at the
> REM top of the structure and ARCHIVE is the name of the resulting file.
> REM The working directory should have TREE as a subdirectory.
>
> @ECHO OFF
> path_1\ZIP -oqr0 %2 %1
> path_2\GZIP -8 %2.zip
> GOTO end
>
> Copyright notices, command summaries, options and any text so long as
> the total length of GZIP_DIR.BAT does not exceed the cluster size.
>
> :end
>
> - - - - - GUNZ_DIR.BAT - - - - -
> REM Usage: GUNZ_DIR ARCHIVE, where ARCHIVE.ZIZ is the compressed
> REM archive file. The files will be placed in their correct subdirectories
> REM if ARCHIVE.ZIZ is placed at the root of the intended directory tree.
>
> @ECHO OFF
> path_2\GZIP.EXE -d -q %1.ziz
> path_1\UNZIP.EXE -u %1
> GOTO end
>
> Copyright notices, command summaries, options and lots of text so long
> as the total length of GUNZ_DIR.BAT does not exceed the cluster size.
>
> :end
>
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> Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 717-675-6567 (fax)
> USA `Haste makes entropy!' Clausius
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