Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > 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
Use 1474560 instead. 80*18*1024 = 1474560
or maybe:
split -b 1440k - foo. < foo
the DOS append command can put the pieces back together.
>
> concatenate:
> cat foo.0 foo.1 ... >foo
>
> tar also supports volumes (but i don't know how it combines with
> compression).
Split it after compression. Concatenate back before uncompression.
>
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