Re: look who's coming for dinner

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Get a copy of cygwin which will give you a lot of useful unix utilities on
your windows box.  Use the split command to break the files up into 1.4 MB
chunks.  Then just use cat to concatenate them together on your home box.

James.

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Mark M. Wilson wrote:

> I want to bring the October Gnome upgrade home in pieces, and have
> determined which files I need to transport via floppy from my work
> computer (which has the ftp capability) to my Linux box at home (which,
> as I've said before, has no modem even).  #/Problem/#: how to split some
> of the rpm's that would span 5-6 floppies.  Can I use a DOS splitter at
> work, reunite them on the win95 partition at home, and then copy them
> from there to the appropriate directories? (Actually, this seems to be
> my only choice until I get my *own* machine at work, which I will
> promptly convert to predom. Linux, and then maybe I'll be able to get a
> file-splitter for Linux, and only have to deal with Linux-formatted
> floppies?)  IS there a reccommended file-splitter for Linux (uh oh, here
> it goes; y'all are gonna' tell me RTFM, that Linux comes with such an
> animal.)
> --Mark
> 
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