On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:56:18AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:27, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > What about zip archives that span disks? You won't get much compression > > (if any) out of it, but... > > > > PS: never used XP, but zip has been able to do this for quite a while > > (at least since 2.04g in the bad old DOS days) > > AFAIK, disc spanning only works when all files in the zip archive are > smaller than the space on the medium you want to transfer it to. The > files in the archive are just distributed over several floppies then, > but without splitting them apart.
Back when I had a FAT16 partition (hda1, ~100M) on my laptop and I couldn't access the network with that system (borked NIC), I copied pkzip onto that partition, and booted with an old DOS floppy. pkzip could split over disks, mid-file, and properly reattach them at the other end. I'm not sure if unzip could handle them properly, though. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
