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zipping to a zip file on a floppy
I know you're not suppsosed to save a document to a floppy. But is it
ok to zip a document on the hard drive into a winzip document that's on a floppy? Larry |
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There's no problem about using floppies in general -- the thing you musn't
do is save *directly* from Word to floppy. It's OK to *copy* a Word document to floppy, or to Zip it, PDF it, or fandangle it in any way you lke. "Larry" wrote in message ... I know you're not suppsosed to save a document to a floppy. But is it ok to zip a document on the hard drive into a winzip document that's on a floppy? Larry |
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"Larry" wrote
I know you're not suppsosed to save a document to a floppy. But is it ok to zip a document on the hard drive into a winzip document that's on a floppy? As long as you don't do it from Word, probably. To be absolutely safe, do the zipping on the hard drive and copy the zipped file to the floppy using Windows Explorer. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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That's two diametrically opposed opinions from Jezebel and Opinicus.
Larry Opinicus wrote: "Larry" wrote I know you're not suppsosed to save a document to a floppy. But is it ok to zip a document on the hard drive into a winzip document that's on a floppy? As long as you don't do it from Word, probably. To be absolutely safe, do the zipping on the hard drive and copy the zipped file to the floppy using Windows Explorer. |
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No, they aren't "diametrically opposed". There are two points he
- Both of them agree that you shouldn't save, zip, or do anything else directly from Word to a floppy. That's to prevent document corruption or a floppy that's suddenly unreadable. ("Would you like to format this disk? Bwa-ha-ha!") - They gave slightly different positions on taking a file from the hard drive and putting it into a zip file on a floppy (outside of Word). Jezebel said it's ok, Opinicus said "to be absolutely safe" you should zip it on the hard drive and then copy the zip to the floppy. The issue here is whether the zipping program has enough error-handling to keep your data safe if the zip file and its intermediate temp files don't fit on the floppy at the same time. I believe most of the major programs like WinZip use your TEMP folder on the hard drive for the intermediates and only write the finished file to the floppy, so that's safe enough. But you have to know how your program behaves, or else play it safe. Another thing that hasn't been mentioned is that floppies are something like 1000 times slower than the hard drive, so zipping on the hard drive and then copying will save some time. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:01:04 -0500, "Larry" wrote: That's two diametrically opposed opinions from Jezebel and Opinicus. Larry Opinicus wrote: "Larry" wrote I know you're not suppsosed to save a document to a floppy. But is it ok to zip a document on the hard drive into a winzip document that's on a floppy? As long as you don't do it from Word, probably. To be absolutely safe, do the zipping on the hard drive and copy the zipped file to the floppy using Windows Explorer. |
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Jay,
You're right. "Diametrically opposed" was too strong. As for speed, you're right that that's also a point to consider. I just tried that. Zipping a large file (1.3 MB) into a winzip file on a floppy was noticeably slower than doing the same thing on the hard disk. Larry Jay Freedman wrote: No, they aren't "diametrically opposed". There are two points he - Both of them agree that you shouldn't save, zip, or do anything else directly from Word to a floppy. That's to prevent document corruption or a floppy that's suddenly unreadable. ("Would you like to format this disk? Bwa-ha-ha!") - They gave slightly different positions on taking a file from the hard drive and putting it into a zip file on a floppy (outside of Word). Jezebel said it's ok, Opinicus said "to be absolutely safe" you should zip it on the hard drive and then copy the zip to the floppy. The issue here is whether the zipping program has enough error-handling to keep your data safe if the zip file and its intermediate temp files don't fit on the floppy at the same time. I believe most of the major programs like WinZip use your TEMP folder on the hard drive for the intermediates and only write the finished file to the floppy, so that's safe enough. But you have to know how your program behaves, or else play it safe. Another thing that hasn't been mentioned is that floppies are something like 1000 times slower than the hard drive, so zipping on the hard drive and then copying will save some time. That's two diametrically opposed opinions from Jezebel and Opinicus. Larry Opinicus wrote: "Larry" wrote I know you're not suppsosed to save a document to a floppy. But is it ok to zip a document on the hard drive into a winzip document that's on a floppy? As long as you don't do it from Word, probably. To be absolutely safe, do the zipping on the hard drive and copy the zipped file to the floppy using Windows Explorer. |
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