Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:32:50 GMT
From:	kvhk AT ivs4 DOT barco DOT com (Koen Van Herck)
Message-Id:	<9612110932.AA08907@ivs4.>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	large files on floppy
Reply-To:	Koen DOT VanHerck AT barco DOT com

How to put large files (>1.44MB) on floppy's ?

I have two solutions:

1. get 2m. It is a program which can format normal HD floppies to 1.8
MB. Then all DJGPP files will fit on it. You can find it on any simtel
site, as msdos/diskutil/2m30.zip

2. get split/merge. These are simple programs which split a large file
in 1.44MB chunks, and merge them back together. You can also compile
this on any unix platform that you might use for downloading the zip
files. You can find src/exe in djgpp/v1/ I wonder why they are not
in the v2 directories ! I hope the v1 directory still exists.
You don't really need merge. You can type in dos: 
copy /b djdev.000+djdev.001 djdev.zip
to merge the files.
Note: when compiling split.c on unix, I had to remove O_BINARY from
the source. 

Hope this helps.
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Koen Van Herck
Electronic Design Engineer
E-mail: Koen DOT VanHerck AT barco DOT com

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