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RE: Utility for multiple floppies



On 22-Aug-2000 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?

If you want to compress the file, you could use rar.
If you just want to split, you could use file managers like Windows Commander,
Norton C., or the djgpp port of GNU split.
On the debian side you just cat the pieces back in one file.



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