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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Floppy-sized Zipping (was: when Zip is a LOT better ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.185530.11564@rei.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:55:30 GMT
- References: <712.814.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <1992Dec4.033439.9038@midway.uchicago.edu> <ByuwI8.MA9@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-
- >I've done it with zoo and a horribly ugly shell script added one file
- >at a time making a backup copy before each addition so it could back
- >off and copy the biggest version that would still fit on a floppy, but
- >there's gotta be a better way.
-
- There is. For ZIP, there is a program called "ZIP Chunker" for MS-DOS
- which will take a large ZIP file and break it into floppy-sized chunks,
- where each chunk is still a full and complete ZIP file.
-
- Note that it does not create the ZIP on the fly (as ARJ does), so it
- requires enough temporary space to hold the entire ZIP file, but it does
- work, and quite well.
-
- I heard that there was supposed to be an upgraded version of this
- program which would apply the concept to any archive (ZIP, ZOO, ARJ,
- etc.), but I have not been able to locate any such program.
-
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