If anyone is interested I can post (or sent as personal email) two programs I was give about 10 years ago called bsplit and bmerge. I used them to split large tar files into floppy size files and then reassemble into the original tar. Output from the bsplit command line is: Usage: bsplit [infile] [chunksize] [outbase] chunksize in bytes, kbytes, or mbytes (n/a, k|K, m|M) (set chunksize = H for High Density Floppy size) writes <outbase>.000, <outbase>.001... Regards, Terry -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Sat 07/31/04 15:55 3:55pm up 10 days 22:01, 4 users, load average: 1.77, 1.33, 0.71

* Adolph & Sharon Weidanz [08-03-04 07:43]:

I would apprecite it if you could send me a copy of these programs..

http://google.com/linux search for: split file -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 15:32, Kastus wrote:

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:50:20PM -0400, Steve Adams wrote:

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Q: What utility can I use to copy the driver file to multiple floppies, and still be able to reconstitute the driver file on the Windows machine?

A. The command you need is split. It comes in coreutils-5.0-90 rpm.

Regards, -Kastus

Thanks. How I rebuild the file over on the winders box?

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:05:05PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Steve Adams [07-29-04 14:45]:

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On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 15:32, Kastus wrote:

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A. The command you need is split. It comes in coreutils-5.0-90 rpm.

Regards, -Kastus

Thanks. How I rebuild the file over on the winders box?

cat, which also comes in coreutils-5.0-90 rpm

Patrick, unfortunately cat is not available in alternative OS unless it has cygwin installed. And the question was how to concatenate files in alternative OS. The workaround is type, I sent it in another post. Regards, -Kastus

(I'm posting before reading all the other answers, so if someone has already sent the same basic info, I do apologize for using the BW.) This may work. I will quote from "The Complete Guide to MS-DOS 5.0 from Hauppauge!" Quote on: COPY _source dest /switches_ ---some text relating to text files removed-- /B indicates a binary file. If this switch is placed before _dest_ DOS will copy everything, including [ctrl]Z characters. End quote. This indicates that without the /b, [ctrl]Z might terminate either the file or the copying procedure, none of which is what you want. I think if I were going to try it, I would write as follows: copy file1+file2 +file3 /b file 123.xyz At any rate, one of these should definitely work, assuming the file is in a DOS-readable format. Remember DOS (and Win 95/98) are not case sensitive, so the /B or /b will either one work fine. Not sure about what you might have on a handheld, but if it's Windows, it should at least be DOS-compatible. --doug On Thursday 29 July 2004 16:19, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Kastus [07-29-04 15:16]:

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Patrick, unfortunately cat is not available in alternative OS unless it has cygwin installed. And the question was how to concatenate files in alternative OS. The workaround is type, I sent it in another post.

You are correct. I should pay more attention.

copy /b file1+file2+file3 full.fil

should work if I remember dos.... -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:44:31PM -0400, Steve Adams wrote:

Thanks. How I rebuild the file over on the winders box?

Well, it goes beyond the scope of this list, but here is what you can try. Say, after split you have files xaa xab xac. Then, in alternative OS, use the following commands in command window: type xaa > xfull type xab >> xfull type xac >> xfull After that, xfull should be your original file. Regards, -Kastus

Steve Adams wrote:

Thanks. How I rebuild the file over on the winders box?

Something like .. copy /b xaa + xab + xac + xad driver.exe where xaa .. xad are the chunks of the original file and driver.exe is the name of the joined together file. It's been years sine I used DOS, so you might want to open up a DOS box and check the help for copy ;-)

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:32, Kastus wrote:

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:50:20PM -0400, Steve Adams wrote:

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Q: What utility can I use to copy the driver file to multiple floppies, and still be able to reconstitute the driver file on the Windows machine?

A. The command you need is split. It comes in coreutils-5.0-90 rpm.

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