Hi Bruce.

06-Mar-03 20:29:42, Bruce Howells wrote to Jasen Betts


 BH> G'day Jasen!
 BH>  
 BH> =>1  use a move tool to move the files and subdiirectories one at a time 
 BH> to a
=>>   new location and then move them back,  the LFNs will "fall
off".
 BH> =>
 BH> =>2  use the dos defrag tool. but first edit the config file to turn off 
 BH> LFN
=>>   support.
 BH>

 BH> Two good suggestion, tanks! I 'spose when you say `a move tool' you mean
 BH> not
 BH> the internal `move' command, but to use an older move prog which doesn't
 BH> know
 BH> about LFNs

Any move tool that will run withoud windows should do it, I've not checked
the capabilities of 98's move command. the dos 6.22 version seemed a little
underpowered.

 BH> We've been using version 2.?? of Pkzip to archive the works, delete
 BH> everything
 BH> which is not a Zip, and then unzip, but it's a pain! Bruc

try using -e0 to speed up the processing.

do you put ther whole disk into a aingle zip or do one per directory ?

 -=> Bye <=-

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