Hi Folks,
A bit one foot in each camp this time.
I have a large file to transfer from a Linux machine to a Win98 machine, and for practical reasons only able to use floppies.
On Linux,
split -C 1m
nicely produces 1MB size chunks that fit on floppies and can then be read into the win98 machine. Done. So far so good.
But -- what's the way to paste the bits together again on Windows?
On Linux there's a choice of ways! But Windows??
Thanks
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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 01:11 +0100, ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
What sort of files are we talking about here, are they ASCII files or binary data of some kind
If just ASCII text then you could do the following
type part1.txt >> output.txt type part2.txt >> output.txt etc
Hello Ted, hello List,
Sounds like a horrible problem, I remember transferring megabytes (about 12 or 13, lol) over by floppy disc aaaages ago.
For your problem, I'm tempted to recommend hjsplit.exe- At any rate HJSplit runs nicely under Wine. But I've just discovered, from getting the link for you, there's a Linux alternative for it anyway! Hooray!! And at least you'll know you have a Windows version to piece the bits back together at the other end. Looks like you can split it down into 1.4mb pieces and all, which'll make the process slightly quicker than 1mb bits! :)
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#win32 http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#linux
Hope it works out for you.
--Simon
(Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks,
A bit one foot in each camp this time.
I have a large file to transfer from a Linux machine to a Win98 machine, and for practical reasons only able to use floppies.
On Linux,
split -C 1m
nicely produces 1MB size chunks that fit on floppies and can then be read into the win98 machine. Done. So far so good.
But -- what's the way to paste the bits together again on Windows?
On Linux there's a choice of ways! But Windows??
Thanks
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Ted,
No serial/parallel ports? Even windows 98 had some networking support, and I have cables I'm trying to get rid of :).
Rob.
ps: apologies for the shameless attempt to get rid of more hardware.
On 04/04/07, Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
A bit one foot in each camp this time.
I have a large file to transfer from a Linux machine to a Win98 machine, and for practical reasons only able to use floppies.
On Linux,
split -C 1m
nicely produces 1MB size chunks that fit on floppies and can then be read into the win98 machine. Done. So far so good.
But -- what's the way to paste the bits together again on Windows?
On Linux there's a choice of ways! But Windows??
Thanks
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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.
Sounds like it would be quicker to take the harddisk out of the Win98 machine and plug it into the Linux box.
Good luck, Tim.
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
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).
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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On 4/4/07, Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
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 ... ).
Add "doskey" to the autoexec.bat to gain normal cursor usage.
http://www.computerhope.com/doskeyhl.htm
Good luck, Tim.
(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.
For text files, I've used "copy *.txt output.txt" before
This concatenates all the text files into one. If it works here it'd be easier than having to type in all the names, assuming they're in alphabetical order.
Matt
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ted Harding Sent: 04 April 2007 11:43 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Linux 'split' OK; Windows 'join' ???
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).
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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(Ted Harding) ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
But -- what's the way to paste the bits together again on Windows?
Based on half a memory and the "BUGS" section of man mcopy, I think it's
copy file1+file2+file3 bigfile
Hope that works!
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