On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> OK, I realize this is kinda off-topic, but I've never been a windows user.
In this case you are a very lucky person. In order to graduate I
have to take exams in which I have to say how great windoze is with it's
'intuitive' platform, and 'unmatch' multitasking. :(
> 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?
I'm not sure what is the best way. I like rar - it isn't free,
but the shareware works decent - because it has versions for dos and win
and *nix. And it names the volumes as name.rar, name.r00, name.r01, and
so on. So you can move those volumes on the hard drive (I hate
unarchiving from floppies, instead I copy their contents on the hard drive
than I unarchive them).
> > 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?
You skip the first steps (the ones with tar and gzip). You can
split one file in fragments (whatever size you want). Than you'll have to
chose how to transport them. You can either copy them on the floppies
(using the dos fs) or rawrite them (in this case it would be safer to
write the name of the file on the label).
I'm aware that there can be better ways of doing this. But this
is what I do when I'm in a similar sittuation.
Raider
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