On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > What about dividing deb-packages into smaller pieces? Which kind of > > software can handle this from a dos-machine into the debian-machine? > > > > I think maybe pkzip can. I'm not sure though.
I'll see. I think that I've got the docs of pkzip. But can the debain zip-uncompressing program handle the chunks, provided I can make them with dos-pkzip? > > If you have another Unix computer, you can break files into chunks with > 'split,' then reassemble them with 'cat'. Look at the man pages for those > utilities. This seems to be a good option. If my local network Unix machine has got 'slip'... I'll see. > > Another option is to write a CD on a friend's CD-writer, or borrow a Zip > drive. This the way I've used, but the only cd-writer which really is locally available is with a commercial company and they charge a lot for its use... > Havoc hv