Zip to mutiple floppies

Darin Perusich Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com
Wed Oct 27 07:47:39 EDT 2004


i use to have a program called winsplit that handled this nicely. i 
might have it at home if you're still interested.

Joe wrote:
> Great.  I didn't know that.  However, in this case I was downloading a 
> Windoze file (I try to keep Windoze off the internet as much as 
> possible) and needed to make a multi-volume zip file (which pkzip could 
> do easily on the Windoze side) so I could take the floppies and load 
> them into the target windoze machine.
> 
> I still want to know how to do this, but in the mean time, I had a major 
> Duh! and realized I could use the usb sd card reader I bought for use 
> with my Palm and copied everything onto a 256K sd card.  Much easier!
> 
> Joe
> 
> deadpoint wrote:
> 
>> create you zip or tar archive and use 'split' to break it up into 
>> multiple files. you can then cat the files back together, cat file1 
>> file2 > file3.
>>
>> Joe wrote:
>>
>>> How do I zip to multiple floppies in Linux?  Yes, I still use 
>>> floppies occasionally.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>
> 

-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com



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