From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: v2
Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:30:40 -0800
Organization:	Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
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A.Appleyard wrote:
> 
>   (2) On looking again through a directory list of my D:\DJGPPV2\ZIPS\*.*, I
> found that some of the files are too big for a floppy. Even nowadays many
> people find that floppies are the handiest way to carry files about. If I
> exclude e.g. compiler sources that few people would want, there remain:-
>     DJDEV201.ZIP 1538295 development system
>     DJLSR201.ZIP 1472671 C runtime library sources
>     BNU27B.ZIP   1712024 binary utilities
>   Can't these be split into floppyfuls like the EM1934??.ZIP files are?

Sure.  Just use the 'split.exe' and 'merge.exe' that come with DJGPP. 
But remember that these files are not designed to be placed on floppy
disks; they just represent everything that is in that respective
package.  If you really want to package DJGPP on floppies, the best way
is to start with a basic distribution that includes all necessary files,
zip that, and then split it onto floppies.

Example of 'split' use:

  split djdev201.zip 1440k djdev201

Example of 'merge' use:

  merge djdev201 djdev201.zip

BTW, if you download the GNU textutils, you may run into problems
because the 'split' and 'merge' from the textutils overwrite the DJGPP
versions.  However, their syntax is sufficiently similar that you won't
have too many problems using the GNU versions.

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