Problems Backing up old laptop with DOS

[Geoff Barnard]

Hello

First option - how much free space is there on the HD? If there's a
lot, then use archive prog to create big compressed file on HD, then
use SPLIT or suchlike to break up archive into 95Mb bits to put onto
ZIP drive, and reconstitute archive later.

Otherwise, I'd guess ARJ your best bet. Version I have does not have
-hm! option, so I don't know what that is. -r option is OK. In my
info, -v option should be -v95000000, i don't know about -v95M variant.
Otherwise there's a -va option which auto detects space available on
destination drive. From what you say, ARJ is not interpreting the -v95M
parameter correctly and is defaulting to 1.4Mb floppy instead.

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Geoff

[Computer Nerd Kev]

Thank's for your help although I ended up using the included DOS
5 backup program suggested earlier.

Post by Geoff Barnard
First option - how much free space is there on the HD? If
there's a lot, then use archive prog to create big
compressed file on HD, then use SPLIT or suchlike to break
up archive into 95Mb bits to put onto ZIP drive, and
reconstitute archive later.

10-20MB HDD space left so this isn't really an option.

Post by Geoff Barnard
Otherwise, I'd guess ARJ your best bet. Version I have
does not have -hm! option, so I don't know what that is.
-r option is OK. In my info, -v option should be
-v95000000, i don't know about -v95M variant. Otherwise
there's a -va option which auto detects space available on
destination drive. From what you say, ARJ is not
interpreting the -v95M parameter correctly and is
defaulting to 1.4Mb floppy instead.

I was using ARJ V 2.85 for which these commands are listed in
the documentation. -hm! indicating for it to use XMS memory, and
the M modifier doing as it indicates. However I tried not using
XMS, typing 95000000, using -va and many other combinations all
with the same result.

By the way, in my newsreader your messages are appearing as new
posts rather than relpies.