> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 8:09 PM, David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> > wrote: > > > > Finally, I also wrote a program called the Multi-Disk Split Archive > > Installer (MDSAI) which is an installer program designed for deploying > > software too big for a single floppy disk. You put the installer on the > > first diskette, along with a file that describes what's being installed, > > and then on each diskette, have a sequential piece of a ZIP archive. > > MDSAI will cat them together and then extract in the C drive.
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds good. Now, don't take this the wrong way, but .... > > PKZIP already had split disk support. I don't remember if Info-Zip > ever fully added it. I think their workaround was some tool to > manually make separate .ZIPs (if possible) of a certain size. That is, > fully intact .ZIPs that don't need special tools to reconstruct. [..] There's also Zipsplit, part of Info-Zip's Zip original package. As the name suggests, you can use it to split up a zip file into smaller chunks, like what would fit on separate floppies. As a test, I created a DOS test.zip file that was 17k, and split it at the 10k threshold, so I had one test1.zip file just a little bit under 10k and another test2.zip file at 7k. You can unzip each separately. It's easy. Zipsplit also lets you leave a certain amount of room on the first "disk," such as for an installer program (that is, the first split zip file won't take up the full size amount). jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
