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HD Space Saver.Zip
The contents of this program primarily concern those of you out there,
like myself, that have a 10 or 20 meg Hard drive, and just don't seem to ever
have enough capacity to do what you need to do without deleting one or more
programs.
Recently a friend of mine attended his local computer users group.
The contents of this disc were given to and explained to members.
However, no documentation came with the files.
PROGRAM FILE LIST:
These files should be included on the disc.
Storprep.bat
Load.bat ------- Main program files
Store.bat
Pkzip.exe
Pkunzip.exe ------- Necessary Compression files
Whereis.exe
FV.Com ------- Something extra just for fun (whereis.exe = self-
FV.Doc explanatory. FV = (Zipped) File Viewer
Readme.1st ------- This doc. file
PROGRAM SETUP:
The purpose of these bat.files is to compress entire directories,
thereby increasing usable disc space. They must be loaded onto your root
directory, along with the ZIP AND UNZIP compression utilities.
At the C:\ (type ) storeprep.bat This will cause the directories
of ARCHIVES, INACTIVE, and BATCH to be created on you root directory.
Do no actually type the word type.
To store an entire directory, now simply type at the C:\ Store
(dir name) parenthesis not included. I do not believe that this program will
work on a dir with a sub-directory. Example = C:\Work\Job1. I could very well
be wrong.
If you have write protected the file in the directory you wish to
store, you should remove the protection prior to running Store. The reason
is that once Store.bat has compressed the directory, it returns to the
directory and deletes all files there after storing them in a compressed form
in the archives directory made by storeprep.bat., thus making usable disc
space available.
In order to run a dir or execute a file in a dir, you must at the
C:\ (type) load (dir name), not including actually typing the words type and
not including the parenthsis. Example:
C:\ load Work
The directory named work will now be unzipped back to the original directory
and the files will again be accessible and usable.
Storing and loading , unless the dir is of extreme length, is fast and
efficient.
The first time however that you compress a dir, if a large dir, it will
take some time, but from that point the zip and unzip process should
work fairly quickly. After original compression, dir or files added
to or updated are added to the compression process.
I went from 300,000 byte free to almost 5 meg.
Give it a try, I think you will like it.