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- From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.050454.15610@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:04:54 GMT
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- rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
-
- >Add some form of compression, even fairly inefficient, and you've got
- >a customer.
-
- I'm a little late for this band wagon, I but agree with Ron. As it is
- now I can successfully copy anything from HPFS to floppy and back, both
- in OS/2 2.0 and in OS/2 1.3. BUT, dealing with extended attributes
- kills performance! There's got to be a better way of dealing with
- these. When I backed up my OS/2 1.3 HPFS files onto floppies to move
- them to OS/2 2.0, it took about 20 minutes to simply copy 400 icons
- to a floppy! I think the reason for this was that the system would
- copy the file, then modify the extended attribute file, copy the next
- file, then modify the extended attribute file, etc. Instead, a good
- tape backup program should first judge how much space is on the floppy
- (as ARJ does), then copy all the files, THEN create the extended
- attribute file for all of them. You'd only need to compress the
- actual files, not the EA's.
-
- Steve Smith | __|__ | " #*&<-[89s]*(k#$@-_=//a2$]'+=.(2_&*%>,,@
- <smsmith@magnus.acs. | | | {7%*@,..":27g)-=,#*:.#,/6&1*.4-,l@#9:-) "
- ohio-state.edu> | | |
- BTW, WYSInaWYG | | | --witty.saying.ARC
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