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kotj.mf
05-30-2003, 11:31 PM
Howdy.

I've got a directory with a couple of dozen MB of files that I need to split up into 1MB zip files.

I know I can do this by hand, but frankly, it sucks, so I'm looking for some way to automate it.

I'm not talking about a multivolume tar archive (at least, I think I'm not) and I know about split and cat, but I need something that the average Windows user can put back together, and, specifically, zip files.

Is there any way to tell zip to recursively zip a directory and spit out archives of a specified size?

I guess alternately, if there's an easy way to get Windows users to cat a bunch of files, that might work... I'd have to see.

Thanks in advance.

slapNUT
05-31-2003, 08:15 AM
Zip cannot create multi-volume archives that I know of. afio (http://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/) may be what you are looking for.

If you use split to create the files file1.zip file2.zi & file3.zip you would put them back together in windows like this:
copy file1.zip+file2.zip+file3.zip file.zip