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From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: transferring large files from Unix to DOS on diskettes, How?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.161701.3119@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 16:17:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.153929.12438@infonode.ingr.com>
Organization: Northwestern University
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In article <1991Jun19.153929.12438@infonode.ingr.com> of comp.unix.msdos,
  richard@xanth.b11.ingr.com writes:
> The mtools utilities work fine as long as the file fits on a single diskette. I understand DOS copy has the same limitation, but we have customers that create multi-megabyte files then want to transfer by diskette to a DOS machine. Is there any public domain utilities that can handle this?  Maybe a DOS version of cpio perhaps. 

  If you copy your file to the hard disk of a DOS machine you can used
SLICE to hack it onto a limitless number of floppies. SLICE automatically
creates a program called SPLICE.COM which when run on a DOS machine
recreates the original file.

If what you need is a UNIX utility that does the same thing, I could try to
port it for you.  It should be a simple thing to do.

	/Peter
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