Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/11/21:30:19
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Bruce A Locke wrote:
> > DJDEV201.ZIP 1538295 development system
> > DJLSR201.ZIP 1472671 C runtime library sources
> > BNU27B.ZIP 1712024 binary utilities
> > Can't these be split into floppyfuls like the EM1934??.ZIP files
> >are?
> >
>
> I faced a similar delema as I only have e-mail at home and thus I had to
> grab the files while I was in school. At school we have had a shareware
> utility called "ARCHIVE SIZER" (AS.EXE) that will let you split large
> archive files into fragments that will fit on a specified disk size.
> When you need the files in one piece, you just use it to reassemble the
> pieces back to normal. *8-)
DJGPP has two utilities called `split' and `merge' to do just that. Their
sources (called `split.c' and `merge.c') are in v1 directory and the
binaries come in djdev. (You might need the sources if you download
DJGPP to a Unix machine and have to split the zips on Unix.)
The problem with splitting an archive into disk-sized parts is that some
people who have fast net links (usually, in the US) are annoyed by the
need to download several files instead of one. A solution would be to
make both single- and multiple-file archives available, so whoever has the
time to do that is welcome to offer their services to DJ ;-)
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