zipsplit is good, but it does have a limitation for single entries which are too big for a single disk. The hard split can handle entries of any size.
When thinking about backups and recovery, zipsplit definitely seems better since it has the possibility of partial recovery. My program was designed with deployment in mind. Create the disks from a source, then take immediately to the installation target. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 06/24/2018 03:23 PM, Jim Hall wrote: >> 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
