346B36G@CMUVM.BITNET (Chuck) (06/04/91)
The machines on campus only have 5.25" floppies. No hard disks. That's why I was wondering if, from now on, you could request the authors to make the zip files about 355k large, to fit on a 360k floppy. Chuck R. bitnet: 346b36g@cmuvm.bitnet Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA Bumper stickers seen on the USS Enterprise: "No GREEN chicks!" "If you can read this, don't you think you're a WEE bit too close?" Other dementia: Ummmm....wellll.......OK!
valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) (06/04/91)
346B36G@CMUVM.BITNET (Chuck) writes: >The machines on campus only have 5.25" floppies. No hard disks. That's >why I was wondering if, from now on, you could request the authors >to make the zip files about 355k large, to fit on a 360k floppy. Fine. We'll just leave out the documentation. If it's still not small enough, we'll out the executable as well. Seriously, look into any of the standard PD splitter type programs... -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)
dj@ctron.com (DJ Delorie) (06/05/91)
In article <1991Jun4.134251.22281@midway.uchicago.edu>, valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes: > >The machines on campus only have 5.25" floppies. No hard disks. That's > >why I was wondering if, from now on, you could request the authors > >to make the zip files about 355k large, to fit on a 360k floppy. > > Seriously, look into any of the standard PD splitter type programs... Part of the djgpp package is a binary split/merge program pair. djgpp itself is 2.2M and I use split/merge to put it on floppies. grape.ecs.clarkson.edu anon. FTP ~ftp/pub/msdos/djgpp split.c split.exe merge.c merge.exe Run with no parameters for help. sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server msdos/djgpp % mail archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Subject: (none) help send msdos/djgpp/split.exe (etc) ^D DJ dj@ctron.com
jrv@sdimax2.mitre.org (VanZandt) (06/08/91)
In article <1608@balrog.ctron.com> dj@ctron.com writes: >In article <1991Jun4.134251.22281@midway.uchicago.edu>, valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes: >> >I was wondering if, from now on, you could request the authors >> >to make the zip files about 355k large, to fit on a 360k floppy. >> >> Seriously, look into any of the standard PD splitter type programs... > >Part of the djgpp package is a binary split/merge program pair. djgpp >itself is 2.2M and I use split/merge to put it on floppies. >DJ >dj@ctron.com There is also a disk free space issue. Use of merge requires a computer with enough free disk space for the uuencoded, split .ZIP file and the merged file at the same time (~100% overhead). uudecoding requires enough space for the initial and final file (50% or 200% overhead, depending on how you figure it). The final unpack operation requires space for the .ZIP file and the final files at the same time (~50% overhead). In contrast, a collection of smaller .ZIP files could be unpacked directly from floppies, with no extra space required. I've looked for alternatives. I have access to several *nix platforms with enough space, and unzip which can unpack an archive, but no corresponding zip to create smaller archives. I could use arc, but it can't save the directory structure. Any other ideas? - Jim Van Zandt (jrv@mbunix.mitre.org)