Re: Installing from floppies
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > [ The original post was to simplify a installation from floppies when a
> > package is two large for a disk and your only access to the net is from a
> > dos based system ]
>
> The files may be named splitz.exe and joinz.exe, but I don't have an url
> for them. I had them for some years until I came across sploiner.
>
> Sploiner provides both split and join and also can handle backup disks
> and with it still work even if one disk is lost. It's easy to find with
> ftp-search and there are binaries and source for unix, M$dos, amiga and
> it shouldnt be to hard to port it to any other architecture Debian is
> running on. Maybe it should be included in the disk-arch dirs.
>
> May the Source be with you.
> Mrvn
Thanks Mrvn, I found the url:
http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~ric/sploiner/sploiner.html
The licence claims it's beerware. That may make it non-free, I'm not good
on licences. Anyway, there are dos/mac binaries, so this looks like a
good addition to the tools directory. Is there anyone I should forward
this to?
Brandon
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