Jeremias Galletti wrote:
> 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?
There are three options:
1) use rar (available for DOS, Windows and Linux), or
2) tar | gzip | split on the Windows side (there ought to be versions
for DOS available from somewhere) and the cat file1 file2 file3 ... >
gzippedfile | gunzip and then use tar un untar the archive.
3) I think you can just cat file1 file2 file3 ... the spanned zip files
into one and then unzip them on linux (if unzip behaves in a funny way,
use zip with a decompression argument)
I'm writing this from memory (don't have time to test it) so you might
need to experiment a little, I haven't used Windows for a long time...
:)
Jacek Artymiak
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