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Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning



> > > 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
> 
i guess, he did not want to dd the files to the floppies. the size i
specifed is the free space on an empty dos-formatted floppy.

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