On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, virtanen wrote: > Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a > floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom > driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages > in a dos-machine to make them smaller and 'unzip' them in the > debian-machine?
A number of compression utilities have the ability to split archives into floppy-sized parts. The one that I have used most recently is RAR, which comes in both Linux and DOS flavors. (I got a copy from a cohort of mine, so I don't know where you would find it.) Note that I was using RAR for its multivolume capability, not its compression. I have also been known, in the past, to write short C programs to split a file up into parts that can be sneakernetted on floppy and then can be COPYed or cat'ed back into the original file. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
