[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: PKBACK Floppies?

2023-02-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: You have that right Sellam, the more that I look into this, based on Fred’s info, I think that I need to get MS-DOS running under DOSBOX-X. Probably worthwhile. Although the truncation of file content after EOF during concatenation is somewhat

[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: PKBACK Floppies?

2023-02-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Feb 1, 2023, at 11:59 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 11:45 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2023, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >>> So far I’ve tackled one split zip. I wasn’t having any luck with >>> the version of PKZIP that I assume

[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: PKBACK Floppies?

2023-02-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
FILE1.ZIP+FILE2.ZIP+FILE3.ZIP+FILE4.ZIP+FILE5.ZIP COMBINED.ZIP THAT will give you a corrupted file! Concatenated copy (COPY with '+') has a behavior that you need to take into account. PC/MS-DOS 1.00 kept track of the file size with a course granularity. (logical sectors, not bytes) Therefore,

[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: PKBACK Floppies?

2023-02-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Feb 1, 2023, at 11:44 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Feb 2023, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> So far I’ve tackled one split zip. I wasn’t having any luck with the >> version of PKZIP that I assume created this. I copied the files into a >> directory, and did COPY FILE1.ZI