[SLUG] copying a .deb to multiple floppies

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies? regards, Richard Hayes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] copying a .deb to multiple floppies

2002-05-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Richard Hayes wrote: Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies? To split: $ split -b 1400k file.deb (or 'cat file.deb | split ... ') $ mcopy xaa a: (change floppy) $ mcopy xab a: ... To rebuild: (copy files from floppies)

Re: [SLUG] copying a .deb to multiple floppies

2002-05-19 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:29:50PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies? Use split to split it into multiple files, and then use cat to reassemble it at the other end. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] copying a .deb to multiple floppies

2002-05-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Richard Hayes Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies? Have a look at split, a standard GNU textutils tool. :-) - Jeff -- She said she loved my mind, though by most accounts I had already lost it.