From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 21:54:32 EDT
ziptoexe will turn a *.zip file into an executable.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:49:04 -0800, Jonathan Berry wrote:
>The archiving program ARJ has always supported spanning
>volumes.
>
>The free PC Mag utility SLICE will span volumes. It writes a
>tiny utility SPLICE onto the first object diskette so that the
>whole thing is, er, self-extracting.
>
>Both of those go back over a decade.
>
>It wasn't so long ago that IBM distributed all (well, it seemed
>like all) of their drivers as executable files which would
>(slowly) create a driver diskette, track by track, all 80
>tracks, no matter how tiny the drivers were. I bet they
>got the odd complaint about that, too!
>
>>If you were on a Sun you could use 'dd' to do the chopping.
>>
>> - Adam
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Ross [mailto:ross_at_math.hawaii.edu]
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 4:56 AM
>>
>>Me:
>>"IBM should really think about distributing driver and utility files like
>>this in
>>floppy-sized chunks!"
>>
>>Allan:
>>"PKzip will span diskettes."
>>
>>(Somebody - thanks JT! - also emailed me to suggest IBM's chopper.exe
>>utility, which I did in fact later run across.)
>>
>
>--
>cheers
>Jonathan Berry
>http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
>
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