Re: Moving Files from Windows

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au> writes:

> There is a port of GNU software to the DOS environment.  I have downloaded
> bash, emacs, and lots of other useful "unix like" commands to a windows
> box and it works beautifully.  The port is called "DJGPP" so do an
> internet search on this to find what to download.

You might be better off looking at CygWin, which has Win32 console
programs instead of DOS-extender programs.

    <URL:http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/>

> Once you have these commands, you can use "split" to break up a file so it
> fits on floppies, and then use cat to join it up again later.

I think with CygWin you can also use `tar' over multiple floppies as
with Linux.

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