I've got a couple of file slicers for dos/win if that's any help, mail me
direct and I'll send them to you
Ailwyn
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Date: 13 May 1999 23:21
Subject: Re: Moving downloads from DOS/WIN to Linux (and back)
>AFAIK, none of the windows archiving utilities are worth a **!\. All
>you need is a dos/windows equivalent of the unix split program, but I am
>sorry, I can't find one. Unix cat * will put the thing together for you
>no worry, but I don't know how to split it in dos. If you are still
>desperate by the time you answer this, I can probably find the source
>for split, and cross-compile it with tasm in dosemu, and mail you a
>uuencoded binary. It'll fit on a floppy without beiing split, or I'm
>Atilla the Hun.
>
>Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
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>This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
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>On Wed, 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>
>> Situation:
>> I get a download of a .tar file into my WIN95 environment, because
>that's
>> running okay, and want to take it onto the other machine running RH5.2,
>> etc.
>>
>> What package will allow me to transport the >2MB file(s)?
>>
>> I have pkzip, WinZip, etc.
>> Will they run under Linux to allow me to rejoin the file(s) that have
>had
>> to be split to go on 1.4MB disks?
>>
>> Is there also a program that will run in both Win and Linux to do this
>> task?
>>
>> Is there a common format for text files?
>> eg can files be taken over in .rtf and/or .doc as well as (I assume)
>.txt?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter Ellis
>> Canberra
>> Capital city of Australia
>>
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