Pkunzip would automatically prompt you to insert disk 2, etc for spanned disks. I believe a workaround was copying the files to a local directory and combining them (in dos copy zip1.zip+zip2.zip full.zip). Not sure how current archive products react to spanned disks or if it was standardized.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 9:01 AM Sellam Abraham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 9:37 PM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org > > > wrote: > > > Some of the floppies I’m recovering data look to be either a multi-part > > ZIP file, or something. Was this a separate product from PKZIP? Part > of the problem is every file has the same > > name, just on different floppies. > > > > I vaguely remember this feature of PKZIP. It's called disk spanning. > > > https://superuser.com/questions/260067/restoring-ancient-zip-file-spanning-floppy-disks-pkzipfix-equivalents > > Sellam > > > >
