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Re: Success! Restoring Windows without using windows
de Craig 04/18/2006 04:40
Howard Schwartz wrote:
> In a previous thread I asked what backup/restore programs could backup and
> restore windows, in cluding LFNs, without itself using windows.
>
> I found the info zip's programs, zip32.exe and unzip32.zip will create and
> extract files with long filenames, if they are in the same directory as
> cwsdpmi.exe, the protected mode and 32-bit service for dos, and if the
> long filename API is made availabe by loading a tsr like doslfn.
>
> Thus any backup or archive program can create an archive that uses zip
> copression using windows. If windows stops working, one can restore
> any and all files using the zip utilities, cwsdpmi, and doslfn -- as
> described above.
>
Congratz & thanks for reporting back.
What version of Winderz have you tested this on?
tia,
-Craig