just a big tarball that can only do one thing: restore an empeg to exactly the state it was in when the backup was made

It would have to be a series of small tarballs, each one not to exceed 2gb in size.

That's probably the reason Frank's program didn't work properly after 2gb: The Windows 95 file system has a 2gb limit on single files. That's upped to 4gb on Win98 if you use Fat32.

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Tony Fabris