Hi Jon, wuzup man?
CF>> the ez-drive. No fancy programs, just Infozip which automatically
CF>> takes care of EA's on it's own. I prefer this method because of the
 JF> I'm not familiar with this program....tell me more...
It's just basically PKZIP for OS/2. Fully compatible with the dos version, it
automatically grabs and zips the EA's associated with the files being zipped
and restores them properly when you unzip them. Even if you only unzip one 
file
from the archive, it uncompresses the EA for the file.
(Though dos PKUNZIP will ignore the EA's when it unzips a file created by 
P)
Lemme see if I have file names for you....
yup: ZIP21X2.ZIP for the compressor
     UNZ520X2.ZIP for the de-compressor
 JF> Mine's the internal IDE version.  I can do anything with the disk, as
 JF> long as
 JF> it was in at boot time, but the system doesn't recognise any disk
 JF> changes.
Wierd, mine always has. I couldn't Format the disks HPFS and swap them, but
HPFSREM.ZIP fixed that problem. Tho I have noticed that no matter what format
the drive is, if you don't have a disk in and spinning at boot time, os/2
can't read the disk even if you insert one later. (which is a problem for me, 
I
remove the disks when I don't need the drive for a while. Gotta remember to 
put
a disk in when I reboot.)
 JF> That's been rectified with a few new files suggested by one of the other
 JF> members of this echo.
That's good, not being able to swap disks would suck. I re-boot often enough 
as
it is, rebooting to swap disks would get on my nerves. :)
 JF> Tell me about Infozip, though.  I'm curious....
Like I said, it is just like PKZIP for dos. I have a set of batch files I run
when I want to backup a part of the HD, does everything automatically in the
background. With the batch files and infozip, I back up only particular parts
of my HD with no problems. It's easier and faster than running some program
that does your whole HD, that is also grabbing junk you've collected but 
havn't
gotten around to deleting. Even on the programs that allow you to selectively
backup, you have to pick directory by directory each time you run it.
Besides, having an os/2 compitable ZIP program is handy even if you don't use
it for backup purposes. :)
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