Hello Eric:
  Darcy sez;
 DS> I like the way it does multiple volumes on hard disk whereas pkzip wont.
 > Don't you mean multiple volumes FROM a hard disk?
 > Sure it will.  You just have to read the docs.
  No, he meant 'on the hard disk' ... meaning that sure, PKZip will allow you 
to span disks in a multi-volume archive, but ARJ will create those archives 
on the HD itself, without prompting for you to change disks every few 
seconds. Example:
arj a -v1440 -y c:\temp\sample.arj c:\subdir\*.*
  This creates SAMPLE.ARJ, SAMPLE.A01, SAMPLE.A02 etc ... in the \TEMP\ 
subdir - all files in \SUBDIR\ - limiting the volume sizes to 1.44meg apiece. 
 The -y tells it to automatically proceed to the next volume when the current 
one reaches the limit declared in the -v switch.  Similar to PKZip's routine, 
but the volumes are created on the hard drive instead of on the flops ... 
PKZip doesn't do this.
  Leaving out the -y and using a:\sample.arj (etc) will make it perform the 
same way PKZip does ... pausing while you change flops.  Useful if your flops 
are already formatted (sometimes not so ... all depends on the order in which 
you do things, I suppose).  At any rate, the ability to create the 
multi-volume archive ON the hard drive exists in ARJ ... not so with PKZip, 
which is what I believe Darcy meant.
Michael
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