On 08/19/2014 08:38 AM, Derrick Meury wrote:
no i havent all i ever used was 7zip or winzip or the
windows xp zip
program. what is that stuff and how does it work the stuff u
mentioned
Now, you're making me feel really old. PKZIP was pretty much the
de-facto file compression utility for DOS/Windows for at least a decade.
The company's still around, even though Phil's been gone for 14 years
now. (PKWare).
Get your hands on a copy of PKZip and format up some diskettes. Run
PKZip with the target as your floppy drive--it should detect that you're
creating your arcive on removable media and split the archive for you
automatically. Failing that, there's the CLI option -& that explicitly
tells PKZIP that you're creating the archive on removable media and that
the archive should span several disks.
There's also an open-source lookalike called "Zip" or something like it,
that also will span disks:
http://www.info-zip.org/mans/zip.html
I think that even WinRAR can be coaxed to create a spanned archive.
--Chuck