(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.
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