(List added to distribution -- I assume it was dropped inadvertantly) In general I try to avoid these problems by: o Not using MS Windows. o Using networked file transfer (shared drive, scp, ftp, email). o Using shared-drive transfer between multiple boot OSs (however, see first comment). I suggested you install a set of common GNU utilities in all your environments and use them. This will give you a set of uniform tools which should treat your data and multi-disk sets consistantly. Otherwise, I really can't help you. On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:55:56PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > If you combine files this way, the multi volume info of winzip will be > corrupt, as now we have many floppy sized pieces in one file instead of > multiple disks, so when it encounters the place where disk two needs > insertion, what do you do then? I just discovered the double greater sign > appends to the end of a file, but appending the raw images of the floppies > may work for mp3's but not much more. It's a pain transfering mp3's with > floppies, as almost every one takes two or three disks. My laptop's hard > drive isn't removable, so no other easy way than CDR but then I have > useless disks with only a few files that I'm wasting unused space. > At 12:20 PM 8/22/00 -0700, you wrote: > >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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