From: jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com (John Velman) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: tar / djtar span disk? Date: 26 May 1998 19:24:44 GMT Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company Lines: 42 Message-ID: <6kf4ts$1a9@hacgate2.hac.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: x-147-17-25-153.es.hac.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk In article , eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il says... > > >On Mon, 18 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote: > >> At 07:45 5/18/1998 +0200, merser wrote: >> >I downloaded som big files for my LINUX system, which isn't connected to th >e >> >web. Can djtar span disks? >> >> At present, DJTAR cannot archive at all, only unpack tar archives. However, >> I think maybe the DJGPP port of GNU tar can do what you want. > I had a similar problem (moving large files from a dos machine connected to the net onto a linux machine not connected). I used the DJGPP utility 'split', which, unfortunately, has the same name as the program 'split' in the textutils package. Info about the "DJ split" is contained in utils.inf. As I recall, I had to obtain the source for the files I call djsplit and djmerge from the V1 archive. But both are small, and compiled readily under both djgpp and linux. I think I mounted my floppy as a dos device, with appropriate options, to read the archives and did not have to use dosemu. Sorry I don't have a record of the details, but I had little or no trouble making it all work. >Yes, the DJGPP port of GNU Tar supports spanning several disks. > >However, please note that currently, Tar doesn't support writing directly >to the floppy at the BIOS level, so you might have difficulties reading >those floppies on Linux unless the version of Tar there supports DOS >floppies. DOSEmu will probably help, though. > -- John Velman jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com