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Article #553Re: transferring large files from Unix to DOS on diskettes, How?
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:17
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:17
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In article <1991Jun19.153929.12438@infonode.ingr.com> of comp.unix.msdos, richard@xanth.b11.ingr.com writes: > The mtools utilities work fine as long as the file fits on a single diskette. I understand DOS copy has the same limitation, but we have customers that create multi-megabyte files then want to transfer by diskette to a DOS machine. Is there any public domain utilities that can handle this? Maybe a DOS version of cpio perhaps. If you copy your file to the hard disk of a DOS machine you can used SLICE to hack it onto a limitless number of floppies. SLICE automatically creates a program called SPLICE.COM which when run on a DOS machine recreates the original file. If what you need is a UNIX utility that does the same thing, I could try to port it for you. It should be a simple thing to do. /Peter -- MAIL: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (hpa@nwu.edu after this summer) "finger" the address above for more information.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!hpa From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: transferring large files from Unix to DOS on diskettes, How? Message-ID: <1991Jun19.161701.3119@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 16:17:01 GMT References: <1991Jun19.153929.12438@infonode.ingr.com> Organization: Northwestern University Lines: 16