On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Jeremias Galletti wrote about, Transporting large files from a
Windows system to a Linux box:
> Hello,
>
> I have two computers at home: a laptop, which I use for connecting
> to the Internet and runs Windows 98, and a desktop, which is
> currently running both Windows 98 and Linux in separate partitions.
>
> Whenever I download a big file (like the new kernel sources) which
> doesn't fit on a floppy, I have to zip it into an spanned archive
> across multiple disks and then I have to read it from Windows 98
> on the desktop computer. The unzip version I have cannot handle
> spanned zip files. Can the newest version of this program read and
> write them? Do you know any other programs that would make the
> job easier? May a DOS version of tar?
Yes i think there is a tar version for dos, i have seen it mentioned here
before, take a look at;
For more information check out the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Or do a netsearch.
Surely any version of pkzip will accomodate multiple archives, you can then
use unzip to extracht them in the linux-box.
man unzip
Might help you here.
> Thanks,
>
> Jerem�as Galletti
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