On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Raider wrote:
> WinZip has a very dumb way of making multiple volumes.
OK, I realize this is kinda off-topic, but I've never been a windows user.
If I wanted to create a multi-floppy archive on windows and put it back
together on Linux, what would be the best thing to use on the windows
side?
> My way of solving this is either use rar - smaller archives,
> supports multiple volumes, and there is a Linux version (not the latest,
> but it can unrar any archive). Other way would be to use split and csplit
> to broke one big file into volumes. You can compile them from the sources
> if you have gcc or it's a lot easier if you download the executabiles -
> you'll find dos textutils almost in every place where is djgpp.
OK, I'll look. :)
> I do like this (in similar cases). I have tar and gzip for dos -
> really small - and so I make a regular tar.gz file. Than I split that big
> file into smaller chunks. And than I either copy using dos copy command
> those chunks (1.4M) or I rawrite them (1.9M). Beware that split is for
> dos32, so you need dpmi (Dr.DOS/Win9x window).
OK, but let's assume the files are already rpms, so they wouldn't compress
further. Then what?
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