Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-23 Thread Bob McGowan
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:50:41PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:25:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > are gnu tar, gzip and friends available for windows > > > wastelands^Wenvironments? --- > Toolkits: > > Cygwin (Cygnus Solu

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:50:41PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:25:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > are gnu tar, gzip and friends available for windows > > wastelands^Wenvironments? > > > > Yep, well I don't know about tar, but cpio, gzip and several others are

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:25:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > are gnu tar, gzip and friends available for windows wastelands^Wenvironments? > Yep, well I don't know about tar, but cpio, gzip and several others are available. For NT there's the NT Resources Kit (free) which has this stuff. I

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:08:26PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > (List added to distribution -- I assume it was dropped inadvertantly) > > In general I try to avoid these problems by: > > o Not using MS Windows. by far the best option ;-) > o Using networked file transfer (shared dri

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
(List added to distribution -- I assume it was dropped inadvertantly) In general I try to avoid these problems by: o Not using MS Windows. o Using networked file transfer (shared drive, scp, ftp, email). o Using shared-drive transfer between multiple boot OSs (however, see first commen

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:35:38PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > If you want to compress the file, you could use rar. > If you just want to split, you could use file managers like Windows Commander, > Norton C., or the djgpp port of GNU split. > On the debian side you just cat the pieces back in o

RE: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 22-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do > the following: > > Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of > desired sma

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:47:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do > the following: > > Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into an

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Christoph Simon
> Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of > desired smaller files so that the smaller files can fit onto multiple > floppy disks, and then rebuild from the multiple small files the original