Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? > > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... > > for hard-liners: > > split: > for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ...; do dd if=foo of=foo.$i skip=$i bs=1457664 count=1; > done
Use 1474560 instead. 80*18*1024 = 1474560 or maybe: split -b 1440k - foo. < foo the DOS append command can put the pieces back together. > > concatenate: > cat foo.0 foo.1 ... >foo > > tar also supports volumes (but i don't know how it combines with > compression). Split it after compression. Concatenate back before uncompression. > > ;-) > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > -- > Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | My current boycotts: Amazon.Com, DVDs, Mattel, Sony | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------- | Dallas - Texas - USA | My current websites: linuxhomepage.com, ham.org