Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:46:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install thingy
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On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:

> >>   1. Should I take into account a possibility that DJGPP will be installed
> >>      from floppies?  This would require reorganizing the layout of files and  
> >>      also splitting some of them
> >
> >I see no reason not to allow that, since not everyone has a cd-rom
> >drive.  I don't know who will be *creating* the floppies, though.
>
> I'll write a utility to pack the zips to floppies and split them if 
> necessary.

There are `split' and `merge' in djdev; you could just use them.

Btw, DJ, I suggest to consider changing their names to something less 
general, like djsplit or fsplit or whatever.  Textutils have `split' 
also, and `merge' is a name of a popular Unix program.