> > Personally, I think the big problem with regards to this is not people
> > quitting so much as the possibility of major hard-drive failure etc. on the
> > testers. I doubt many of them keep good backups
>
> NO EXCUSE! A Zip drive or a CD-R is inexpensive and effective; one
> will service many networked systems, they don't all have to be
> running the same OS.
True, also Pkzip 2.04g (I don't know about WinZip) had the ability
to span a zip archive across floppy disks. Even on a LL test of
33mil would take up under 3 floppies. (This wouldn't be reasonable
for large networks, but it would be easily achievable for the home
user...)
-Lucas
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