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Heie Erchinger

2006-02-27, 7:55 am

Hello experts,
I relly like to use winrar and rar to compress Files onto multiple-disk
files.
But now I have to backup data on a really old workstation, still running
win 3.1 and dos. My rar.exe seems to need 32bit-systems and fails.
What program can I use to backup my data (approx. 20 MB) onto several Disks.
I´m looking forward to your suggestions.

Heie Erchinger, Berlin , Germany
Claudio Grondi

2006-02-27, 7:55 am

Heie Erchinger wrote:
> Hello experts,
> I relly like to use winrar and rar to compress Files onto multiple-disk
> files.
> But now I have to backup data on a really old workstation, still running
> win 3.1 and dos. My rar.exe seems to need 32bit-systems and fails.
> What program can I use to backup my data (approx. 20 MB) onto several
> Disks.
> I´m looking forward to your suggestions.
>
> Heie Erchinger, Berlin , Germany


I can remember, that on such hardware that time I was using ARJ for
backup of data (supports multi-disk).

Claudio
Heie Erchinger

2006-02-27, 7:55 am

Claudio Grondi schrieb:

> I can remember, that on such hardware that time I was using ARJ for
> backup of data (supports multi-disk).


Thank you, this tool works fine.

Greetings
Heie Erchinger
Jim Leonard

2006-02-27, 6:56 pm

Heie Erchinger wrote:
> I relly like to use winrar and rar to compress Files onto multiple-disk
> files.
> But now I have to backup data on a really old workstation, still running
> win 3.1 and dos. My rar.exe seems to need 32bit-systems and fails.
> What program can I use to backup my data (approx. 20 MB) onto several Disks.


Rar v2.50 was the last version to work on 8088/8086 systems. I use it
every day on my IBM PC/XT; I can send you a copy if you like, just
email me. Combined with solid mode and recovery info, it's great for
splitting to disks.

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