erik@echocen.UUCP (Erik Ch. Ohrnberger) (09/22/90)
I'm looking for a utility, C program or shell script that will take a set of files, greater than the size of the floppy, and put them on more than one floppy as free space on the floppies allow. I'm not talking about splitting the files across volumns, but calculating the best way to utilize the free space on the floppy. The files that are on the floppy are regular files, and the floppy has a regular file system on it, so that it can be mounted, 'ls'ed and 'cp'ed. In DOS they have a number of utilities that do this, but I have not seen one around on the net. Have you heard about one? Where could I find one? Thanks, Erik. -- Erik Ohrnberger Work: sharkey!edsews!edstip!ohrnb 2620 Woodchase Court Home: sharkey!eds.com!echocen!erik Sterling Heights, MI 48310
karl@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Karl Ihrig) (09/23/90)
In article <789@echocen.UUCP> you write: >I'm looking for a utility, C program or shell script that will take a >set of files, greater than the size of the floppy, and put them on >more than one floppy as free space on the floppies allow. I'm not What kind of system are you running this on? I have a shell script that i cooked up for dribbling 2400 blocks out to a floppy via cpio. My system is a AT386 SysV 3.2 I should image that a shell script would run on any system, but i have had some surprises with the stuff gotten from the Net. At times i wish i had a BSD derived system so i could do all the neat things one can only image the berkeley boys do. If you like I can mail you a copy of the script and you can modify it to meet your exact needs. Karl... PS. First lets see if you get this, too much of the mail bounces.