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From: dj@ctron.com (DJ Delorie)
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Subject: Re: zip files too large
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:39:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.134251.22281@midway.uchicago.edu>, valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
> >The machines on campus only have 5.25" floppies. No hard disks. That's
> >why I was wondering if, from now on, you could request the authors
> >to make the zip files about 355k large, to fit on a 360k floppy.
> 
> Seriously, look into any of the standard PD splitter type programs...

Part of the djgpp package is a binary split/merge program pair.  djgpp
itself is 2.2M and I use split/merge to put it on floppies.

grape.ecs.clarkson.edu  anon. FTP  ~ftp/pub/msdos/djgpp
  split.c
  split.exe
  merge.c
  merge.exe

Run with no parameters for help.

sun.soe.clarkson.edu  archive-server  msdos/djgpp
  % mail archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
  Subject: (none)
  help
  send msdos/djgpp/split.exe
  (etc)
  ^D

DJ
dj@ctron.com