Re: Help needed with compressed files

> Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM > drive and is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can > compress them using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from > spanned floppy disks? Any suggestions? I would u

Re: Help needed with compressed files

[...] > The unzip package doesn't do disk spanning. > > OTOH, if you can find a way of splitting the .deb into pieces, you can then > easily put it back together again with "cat part1 part2 > xyzzy.deb". (That > is, the first part contains bytes 1-100, second 101-200 etc.) The command

Re: Help needed with compressed files

Hello, > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive and > is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress them > using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy disks? Any > suggestions? I wouldn't think the .deb files would rea

Re: Help needed with compressed files

Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM > drive and is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can > compress them using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from > spanned floppy disks? Any suggestions? You can use

Re: Help needed with compressed files

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive > and is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress > them using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy > disks? Any suggest

Help needed with compressed files

I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive and is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress them using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy disks? Any suggestions? Regards, Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.~ Aust