Karen,
To your question on how to exclude certain files or directories
when you use pkzip to backup your entire drives to floppy disks:
You can do this by combining the X (exclude) option in pkzip,
and the @listfile option. Notice the character used to introduce the
list file. Same character as the one we use in e-mail address to
separate account from domain.
So, you specify the directories and or files to be excluded in a
plain text file, one entry on a line by it self, - as many
entries/lines you want. Say if you want to exclude your DOS
directory and your UTIL directory, then just create a file with the
following entries:
C:\DOS\*.*
C:\UTIL\*.*
and save it under any name you want as long as you remember to use
this name in your pkzip command. Say you save it as "NOTCOPY.TXT".
in the root of your C drive. You then introduce it on the command
line in the following format.
PKZIP [other options] -x@C:\notcopy.txt zipfile [files to zip]
So just blend the above with your current command line,
so you get something like the following:
PKZIP -a -r -p -& -xC:\@notcopy.txt a:\myback.zip C:\*.*
You may want to type your resulting command line back to the list so
others can see if you got it right. And of course, if anyone spot
any errors in my command line above then please input.
All the best,
Bjorn
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