Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:35:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bruce A Locke <praxis_beta AT juno DOT com>
cc: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: v2
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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 ;-)