Why don't you just use Windows command line prompt? Or Totalcommander?
Why arj? That's ancient, rar and zip are much better IMO these days.
Back in dos days I only used arj but today....

This is a joke right?

But to answer your question:

mount a a:/ -t floppy
mount c c:/totalcmd/utility
mount d c:/users/enzo/documents

Then switch to c, start arj and let it backup d to a

Dominus wrote:

Why don't you just use Windows command line prompt? Or Totalcommander?
Why arj? That's ancient, rar and zip are much better IMO these days.
Back in dos days I only used arj but today....

I would like to use the Totalcmd as i done on Windows XP
but since i've passed to Windows 7 64 Bit it won't work.
When i try to pack the files trough Totalcmd i get the error that
it cannot find the external program even if i have set the right path in the
Totalcmd cfg.
If i try to run the arj.exe comand trough he Totalcmd i get the error:

Error executing program! (5)

Can you tell me why and if there is a possibility to run the comand trough the totalcmd as i done with Windws XP?
Any help will be really appreciated
Thanks in advance.
Enzo

you need to find at least a 32bit version of arj, 16bit programs (almost all dos programs) can't be run on 64bit Windows. Just use Winzip, Winrar for backing up. As I wrote earlier those bring much more useful stuff to the table these days. It's 2012, don't use a program made for the 20th century.
And don't use Dosbox with it. As Dsobox won't pass along long file names you are surely going to have problems with it.

Dominus wrote:

you need to find at least a 32bit version of arj, 16bit programs (almost all dos programs) can't be run on 64bit Windows. Just use Winzip, Winrar for backing up. As I wrote earlier those bring much more useful stuff to the table these days. It's 2012, don't use a program made for the 20th century.
And don't use Dosbox with it. As Dsobox won't pass along long file names you are surely going to have problems with it.

I'd advise 7zip...
http://www.7-zip.org/
...which unlike the suggestions of WinRAR/WinZip is freeware, and typically achieves slightly better compression than them as well.

kolano wrote:

I'd advise 7zip...
http://www.7-zip.org/
...which unlike the suggestions of WinRAR/WinZip is freeware, and typically achieves slightly better compression than them as well.

True that. I suppose you could even take the source code for the command-prompt versions and change the command line arguments to make it work exactly the same way as Arj used to.

I still can't stand the UI of 7-Zip, though. I think there were some alternatives I was going to look at, but IZArc (which is free but not open-source) continues to meet my needs nicely.

I think there is a ßeta Total Commander 64 bit now.

I would use 7-Zip too. Great compression and it's free.

El_pusher, Total Commander isn't the issue, it's that TC uses the arj dos tool for archiving.

Dominus wrote:

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But to answer your question:

mount a a:/ -t floppy
mount c c:/totalcmd/utility
mount d c:/users/enzo/documents

Then switch to c, start arj and let it backup d to a

Please apologize if OT but i ma trying to format some diskette
with my USB Floppy Drive but i cannot get truogh.
Every time i try to format the format seems to do not work and to restart the comand i have to unplug and plug in again the USB Floppy drive.
It seems it takes long time to format.
Sometimes it stops in the middle of formatting
Sometimes i get error IOCTL
So i have tried with DosBox just in case the USB Floppy Drive
is not seen properly.
I have tried to put the comands above but when i launch the Format comand, i get the error that the comand cannot be run in Dos Mode.
Any help?

You can't format floppies in DOSBox and you can't use the format command from Windows because it's not a DOS program.

You are weitdly posessed to do everything through dosbox. Use the native ways provided by your OS.

Dominus wrote:

El_pusher, Total Commander isn't the issue, it's that TC uses the arj dos tool for archiving.

it's only this particular user of TC who seems to want to use arj...

And your point is?

....miles away from you, for some reason. Gee, this thread could sure use more snarky comments, right?

YOU ALL SUCK DISK (FLOPPY)

I've got a big disk

hard disk?