Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Christian Surchi
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:40:40PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > I'd suggest rar. rar is non-free and using split is so easy... ;) bye Christian

Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Vitux wrote: > Hi deb's > Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... > thx > Vitux I'd suggest rar.

Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? > > > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > > > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... > > > > for hard-liners: > > > > split: > > for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ...; do dd if=foo of=foo.$i skip=$i bs=1457664 co

Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Phil Howard
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? > > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... > > for hard-liners: > > split: > for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ...; do dd if=foo of=foo.$i skip=$i bs

Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:56:27PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... Have you considered buying a null modem cable? You could run a getty against a serial port on the Debian box, and just use

Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... for hard-liners: split: for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ...; do dd if=foo of=foo.$i skip=$i bs=1457664 count=1; done concatenate: cat