On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:47:42PM -0400, henrymar@gpc.peachnet.edu wrote: > Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do > the following: > > Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of > desired smaller files so that the smaller files can fit onto multiple > floppy disks, and then rebuild from the multiple small files the original > large file onto a debian system? pkzip will do it from the Windows side, as should most 'ZIP' utilities, IIRC, eg: winzip, etc. On the Linux side, I believe unzip will handle spanned archives, though you may need to concatenate the files together first. GNU tar handles multi-volume archives with the -M option. You can also use 'split' to create multiple files from one. They can simply be concatenated together to create the original file. Installing a set of GNU utilities on your Windows box may be a good general solution to this problem. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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