Subject: Re: Building blivets.
To: frank donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 23:13:53 EST
From: Angelo Ferrigno <aferrign AT iisst3 DOT italy DOT NCR DOT COM>
Cc: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> - - - -
> Frank Donahoe, Emeritus - Physics	fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu
> Wilkes University, Box 111		717-675-2493	(H)
> Wilkes-Barre, PA  18766			717-675-6567	(fax)
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> - - - -
> 
> 


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