Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de>]

> Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks?
> I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for
> one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop...

for hard-liners:

split:
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ...; do dd if=foo of=foo.$i skip=$i bs=1457664 count=1; done

concatenate:
cat foo.0 foo.1 ... >foo

tar also supports volumes (but i don't know how it combines with
compression).

;-)

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