(Ted Harding) wrote:
On 04-Apr-07 09:09:06, Jim Rippon wrote:
On 4/4/07, Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have a large file to transfer from a Linux machine to a Win98 machine, and for practical reasons only able to use floppies.
In DOS (or Windows Command Prompt) you can use the following command to re-compile binary files:
copy /b <file1>+<file2>+<file3> <destination file> /v
I don't have anything to test this with at present, but I have used this method way back when to transfer data using floppies on M$ boxes.
HTH,
Jim
It did indeed! In fact it worked ... ! Only problem was typing in all the file names without making a mistake (if you try to back-arrow to your typo in DOS you erase as you go ... ).
Many thanks also to Wayne, Simon, Rob, Tim and MJ for suggestions and/or sympathy. (Simon's suggestion of hjsplit might come in handy one day if I ever have to go the other way).
Splitf.exe and Joinf.exe are similar utilities and are also available on various platforms including Linux - http://www.chasmer.com/PC/index.html
Splitf has the advantage of being able to specify filesize and so for example, you might have a 16MB flash card. You would specify -filezise 16000 to split a file.