Re: too big packages?
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > What about dividing deb-packages into smaller pieces? Which kind of
> > software can handle this from a dos-machine into the debian-machine?
> >
>
> I think maybe pkzip can. I'm not sure though.
I'll see. I think that I've got the docs of pkzip. But can the debain
zip-uncompressing program handle the chunks, provided I can make them with
dos-pkzip?
>
> If you have another Unix computer, you can break files into chunks with
> 'split,' then reassemble them with 'cat'. Look at the man pages for those
> utilities.
This seems to be a good option. If my local network Unix machine has got
'slip'... I'll see.
>
> Another option is to write a CD on a friend's CD-writer, or borrow a Zip
> drive.
This the way I've used, but the only cd-writer which really is locally
available is with a commercial company and they charge a lot for its
use...
> Havoc
hv
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