Oh absolutely, or a zip drive. But it's annoying me dammit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Abbott [mailto:brian .at. abbott DO.T plus.com]
Sent: 13 June 2003 10:50
To: 'ProFox Email List'
Subject: RE: Zipping VFP data.
Alan
If a quick and dirty backup is what you're after, why not just get them to
spend EUR50 or so on a USB memory stick and avoid the spanning altogether?
Just a thought ...
Cheers
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Brian Abbott
ACA Systems
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com
> [mailto:profox-bounces .at. leafe DO.T com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke
> Sent: 13 June 2003 09:11
> To: 'profox@leafe.com'
> Subject: Zipping VFP data.
>
>
> I've reposted this without the OT tag so apologies if you've
> seen it before.
>
> I've got a weird problem with one of my customers. I've set
> up a batch file to PKZIP some VFP data files to floppy. The
> problem is that it fills the first disk no problem, then
> prompts for disk 2. You put disk 2 in and it keeps asking for
> disk 2 ... as if the machine is not registering the disk change.
>
> The PKZIP command in the batch file is:
>
> PKZIP -ex "-&wv" a:adata.zip a_*.*
>
> The same command works on hundreds of sites with no problem.
> Things to note:
>
> Tried on 2 Compaq Windows XP Pro workstations and a Dell
> server with Windows 2000 server. The "-&w" is in quotes
> because that's the way it has to be under NT/2000/XP
> - that wipes the disk, spans disks and verifies.
> I've tried "-&uv" which formats the disks first, no dice.
> Winzip won't span the disks properly. PKZIPC won't either.
>
> The only commonality is that the floppies are all Imation but
> they used to work fine, and even fresh disks don't work.
>
> Any ideas ... ?
>
> Alan Bourke
> Opera Support And Development
> Quantum Business Solutions,
> Quantum House,
> Temple Road,
> Blackrock,
> Co. Dublin,
> Ireland
>
> Tel +353 1 2796666
> Fax +353 1 2832384
>
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