Re: floppy sized packages
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:27, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:23:44AM -0700, 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.
>
> What about zip archives that span disks? You won't get much compression
> (if any) out of it, but...
>
> PS: never used XP, but zip has been able to do this for quite a while
> (at least since 2.04g in the bad old DOS days)
AFAIK, disc spanning only works when all files in the zip archive are
smaller than the space on the medium you want to transfer it to. The
files in the archive are just distributed over several floppies then,
but without splitting them apart.
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