Zip to mutiple floppies

[Joe]

Thanks.  I'll probably still be finding things I need that are already 
in my distro (but that I didn't know were there) for years!

Joe

Mark Musone wrote:

>You don't need to do that. Zip has the ability to split a output across
>multiple files, and the utility zipsplit specifically does that. Chek
>the man page on zip. Below is an excerpt.
>
>zipsplit [options] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] zipfile 
>
>Split a zip file into multiple zip files. 
>
>"Size" must be larger than the largest compressed file. 
>
>OPTIONS 
>
>-t: tell how many files would be used, but don't create them 
>-i: create index (zipsplit.idx), count size against first zip file 
>-n: maximum zip file size (default = 36000 bytes) 
>-r: leave room for so many bytes on the first disk (default = 0) 
>-b: path for output zip files 
>-p: pause between output zip files 
>-s: output zip files in sequence, even if it's not optimal 
>See also: zip 
>
>Example use: 
>
>See how many zip files it would be, if split into 100,000 bytes each. 
>
>zipsplit -tn 100000 blah.zip 
>
>Perform the split. 
>
>zipsplit -n 100000 blah.zip 
>
>Retrieved from http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Zipsplit
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>Joe
>Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:51 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: Zip to mutiple floppies
>
>Great.  I didn't know that.  However, in this case I was downloading a 
>Windoze file (I try to keep Windoze off the internet as much as 
>possible) and needed to make a multi-volume zip file (which pkzip could 
>do easily on the Windoze side) so I could take the floppies and load 
>them into the target windoze machine.
>
>I still want to know how to do this, but in the mean time, I had a major
>
>Duh! and realized I could use the usb sd card reader I bought for use 
>with my Palm and copied everything onto a 256K sd card.  Much easier!
>
>Joe
>
>deadpoint wrote:
>
>  
>
>>create you zip or tar archive and use 'split' to break it up into 
>>multiple files. you can then cat the files back together, cat file1 
>>file2 > file3.
>>
>>Joe wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>How do I zip to multiple floppies in Linux?  Yes, I still use 
>>>floppies occasionally.
>>>
>>>Joe
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>

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