Re: floppy sized packages
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:23, Michael R wrote:
> Does anyone know where to find floppy sized packages for Debian??? I need to
> download them on my XP computer and then transfer them using floppies onto
> my Debian box. Or if anyone happends to know of a file splitter for Windows
> that will make files I can join with a linux program that would work too.
At first, you might use some sort of archiver such as rar which is able
to produce multi volume archives and also runs under linux.
My second suggestion would be to just have a look at e.g. download.com,
in the windows section just search for "file splitter" and pick one that
sounds likely.
Under Windows I was using Shredder, but I'd recommend winsplit (see:
http://www.unganisha.org/home/pages/winsplit/index.html) - it does it's
job and it's quite small in size.
Usually a file splitter just cuts a file into pieces without twisting
any bytes. So, under linux you can join them using standard *nix tools:
For example you've split "debs.zip" using winsplit into 3 seperate files
you may join them (assuming that you copied them into the current
directory) using
bash$ cat debs_zip.{1,2,3} > debs.zip
Of course you might also use wine in order to run winsplit under linux
and use that to join the files. Or just let winsplit generate a batch
file when splitting the files and just execute that under dosemu?!
claudio
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