From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 23 18: 9: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154D637B42F for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1O28Yu25474 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:08:34 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:08:34 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: splitting files for DOS floppies Message-ID: <20020224130833.J16874@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need to send some large (2-4MB after zipping) binary files on floppy disks to a typical home user of MS-DOS in a remote area. How can I split these files up into smaller chunks to fit the floppies, in a way that will allow the user to stick them back together under MS-DOS 6.2? I already tried zipsplit but it said the file within the archive was too big, so it seems to want to split zip archives only where it finds the end of a file within. Perhaps I could just use split(1) and have the DOS user cat the parts together, but I have no confidence that that would work under DOS. Due to the isolation of the user, we can't afford to make bold guesses. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message