Transferring large files using floppies

[Zappo]

Here's the problem - you have a 10 Mb file, you need to take it from a Windows computer to a Linux computer, and you can only use floppies. How to?

[bdg1983]

See if gzip has the ability (man gzip) to span multiple diskettes. I believe it should have otherwise tar might. Again 'man tar'.

[Xsecrets]

you could always use rar.

[Malakin]

In Linux you can split files with "split", you can put the files back together with "cat". Windows can put the files back together "cp /b file1 + file2" but it has no way of splitting them so you'll have to download something for that. If you do a search for "file splitting" at tucows.com lots of stuff comes up some of it being freeware, maybe this will do the job: http://shawcable.tucows.com/preview/12934.html

[slapNUT]

The problem is you want to go from Windows to Linux. It is easier the other way because Linux has the split command and you can reconstruct the file at windows with copy file1 + file2 file1. ZDNet has a utility Splice which will chop up big files. The problem with splice is it adds stuff to the first file on the "disk set" if you select to split the file to A:. Then when you get to linux and do the cat to put the file back together it's not the same. Splice also has an option to split the file into equal porportions i.e. you could split it into 10 1Mb files then copy them onto 10 disks then possibly they could be cat'd back together in Linux. I've never tried this and dont know if it would work.