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Printing and Archiving
24.2 Archiving Projects and Libraries
Programming with STEP 7
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24.2 Archiving Projects and Libraries
You can store individual projects or libraries in compressed form in an archive file. This
compressed storage procedure is possible on a hard disk or on a portable data medium (such as a
floppy disk).
Archive Programs
In STEP 7, you can use the archive program you prefer to archive projects. The archiving programs
ARJ and PKZip ship with STEP 7 and are installed automatically. You will find the relevant
descriptions in the installation paths of the archiving programs.
To use a specific archiving program, you require the following version (or newer):
• PKZip V12.4 (ships with STEP 7)
• WinZip (tested with Version 14)
• ARJ V2.50a (only for retrieving, ships with STEP 7 (not for Windows 7))
Special Issues
If you used ARJ32 V3.x for archiving with previous STEP 7 versions, these archives may only be
retrieved with ARJ32 V3.x.
Creating an archive with PKZip will take substantially more time on network drives than on local
drives.