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- From: cuffell@spot.Colorado.EDU (CUFFELL TIMOTHY MICH)
- Subject: Re: Floppy-sized Zipping (was: when Zip is a LOT better ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.033458.24198@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <1992Dec4.033439.9038@midway.uchicago.edu> <ByuwI8.MA9@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec11.185530.11564@rei.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:34:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.185530.11564@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- >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.
- >
- Furthermore, it cannot divide individual compressed files in the archive.
- This means that with file slight smaller than the media size, space is
- wasted, and with compressed files bigger than the media, it doesn't work
- at all.
-
- >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.
- >
- >--
- >#ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone) fuzzy@netcom.com
- >#define TRUE 0 |
- >#define FALSE 1 | "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
- >#endif | the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada."
-
-
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