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To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: splitting files for DOS floppies
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At 01:08 PM 2.24.2002 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
>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*-
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