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ZI Pping Archives Across Multiple Floppy Disks
| Field | Archiving, Backups, Warez |
| Went Obsolete | The introduction of consumer CD burners, deprecation of .INI configuration files |
| Made Obsolete By | Cost-effective media with sufficient capacity |
| Knowledge Assumed | Common CLI usage, Sufficient disks on hand, understanding of application configuration, |
| When useful | Moving “large” data sets between machines, the early warez scene, hard disk space management |
Remember when High Capacity meant 1.44MB? And then you wanted to move 6MB from your lab computer to your home machine? You likely had a case of floppies in your bag, one of which had the indispensable ZIP, ARC, or RAR application on it. Plop in that first disk and fire up the command line help to get your switches right as you started to ZIP up those files.
- Same skill set also used as the basis for file transfer systems that allow retry when carrier failure is anticipated - say for transferring large files over a GPRS connection.
