Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/26/15:30:48
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980519101831 DOT 21112F-100000 AT is>, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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>On Mon, 18 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
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>> At 07:45 5/18/1998 +0200, merser wrote:
>> >I downloaded som big files for my LINUX system, which isn't connected to
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>> >web. Can djtar span disks?
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>> At present, DJTAR cannot archive at all, only unpack tar archives. However,
>> I think maybe the DJGPP port of GNU tar can do what you want.
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I had a similar problem (moving large files from a dos machine connected to
the net onto a linux machine not connected). I used the DJGPP utility
'split', which, unfortunately, has the same name as the program 'split' in
the textutils package. Info about the "DJ split" is contained in utils.inf.
As I recall, I had to obtain the source for the files I call djsplit and
djmerge from the V1 archive. But both are small, and compiled readily under
both djgpp and linux. I think I mounted my floppy as a dos device, with
appropriate options, to read the archives and did not have to use dosemu.
Sorry I don't have a record of the details, but I had little or no trouble
making it all work.
>Yes, the DJGPP port of GNU Tar supports spanning several disks.
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>However, please note that currently, Tar doesn't support writing directly
>to the floppy at the BIOS level, so you might have difficulties reading
>those floppies on Linux unless the version of Tar there supports DOS
>floppies. DOSEmu will probably help, though.
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John Velman
jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com
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