>>>I last used version 2.04g before switching to WinZip, which offered a great deal more functionality, particularly with the command line extensions.
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>>I was really not thinking about the dos version at all.
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>I thought you had to download the beta add-on to get more than limited command line functionality from WinZip. I didn't see a command line parameter for spanning disks. Does the beta work well? I use DynaZip so I haven't had to worry about it.
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>Perhaps Mr. Jones could tell us which PKWare product he is using. I evaluated PKZip for Windows a long time ago. Back then it had no command line functionality and there was a bug associated with spanning disks when zipping very large files.
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>I have never looked at the PKWare data compression library. I have never seen any discussion about it on the UT. I see on their web site that it doesn't use the .ZIP format. I wonder why.

I have had no trouble with WIN ZIP in large files and open tables as part of large files. I back up an SBT & TIW system at one client. Every night at quitting time they run the generate program for TIW to produce work orders. It has lots of tables open that were never getting backed up.

WinZip makes this job easy. I get a zip file for all the modules, and ;my tape back up can safely back up that zip file.

I don't span disks in this operation. We are talking 15+ megs per zip.

__Stephen