Zip to mutiple floppies

[Mark Musone]

You don't need to do that. Zip has the ability to split a output across
multiple files, and the utility zipsplit specifically does that. Chek
the man page on zip. Below is an excerpt.

zipsplit [options] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] zipfile 

Split a zip file into multiple zip files. 

"Size" must be larger than the largest compressed file. 

OPTIONS 

-t: tell how many files would be used, but don't create them 
-i: create index (zipsplit.idx), count size against first zip file 
-n: maximum zip file size (default = 36000 bytes) 
-r: leave room for so many bytes on the first disk (default = 0) 
-b: path for output zip files 
-p: pause between output zip files 
-s: output zip files in sequence, even if it's not optimal 
See also: zip 

Example use: 

See how many zip files it would be, if split into 100,000 bytes each. 

zipsplit -tn 100000 blah.zip 

Perform the split. 

zipsplit -n 100000 blah.zip 

Retrieved from http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Zipsplit



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Joe
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:51 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Zip to mutiple floppies

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
>>
>

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