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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Some OS Q's.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.000915.16436@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <Qf_3j1q00UhWM7ykZk@andrew.cmu.edu> <sal8.247.724202722@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:09:15 GMT
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- In article <sal8.247.724202722@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
- >>7. Where is the source code for InfoZip's stuff?
- >Never seen it myself...
-
- Should be available from the same site you get Info-Zip's Zip/UnZip.
- Check wuarchive.wustl.edu via anonymous ftp if you can't find it
- anywhere else.
-
- >>Explaination: I want to write a HD backup program for os2 which will
- >>operate under either FAT or HPFS and use the TurboVision IDE style
- >>interface. (if you know how I might implement the interface under gcc or
- >>something else let me know) Anyway, I plan to develope under BCC and
- >>run it as a DOS app under OS2. Is this possible? Feasible?
- >Should work...you do realize that such a beastie couldn't access the files
- >OS/2 will have locked while it's running...that means the user would have to
- >boot from a floppy.
-
- That's not correct. OS/2-aware backup software can back up all files
- on the hard disk provided that all other running tasks (which _may_
- use locked files) are shut down. (To read the INI files, you use the
- API services -- you don't do a straight copy.) Sytos, for example,
- does exactly that. (You can also introduce some additional logic
- which warns the user of any locked files on the system and either
- retries for a set period of time or invites the user to shut down the
- running application.)
-
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