Re: SHK, ZIP, ARC, LHA and other compacters

[jws54@cas.org (Jeffrey Smoot)]

In article <2m6c3q$cv4@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU>, yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Yoshi) writes:
|> Tiny Death (ba06103@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu) wrote:
|> : What do you mean when you say you have to split long files? You have
|> : files that won't fit onto an 800k disk? I've never ran into a file
|> : that long!
|> 
|> 	I have. I downloaded the SSIDemo released by Future Crew for the
|> 	PCs at my highschool; well, there were 4 ZIP files, all 1.4MB a
|> 	piece. Hmm. I had to fit all of these on 800k disks? I don't think
|> 	so. I didn't even bother; ended up just hauling my 14.4 into school
|> 	that day (damn thing is a 9.2MB EXE file; sheesh!). 
|> 
   There are many files that are over 800K, even when shrunk. Most recent
example is the escher stack on cco.caltech but even multi-file segments from the
binaries exceed this. I think scii works on a UNIX box but, in theory, as I'm not
allowed to have my own executables on this thing, a Mac version would easily make
my d/l less complicated.


|> 	I still have yet to see a utility on the GS which does do file split-
|> 	ting.  
There is one or more free standing programs, and the venerable GNO, that will do
this.


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|> Jeremy 'Yoshi' Chadwick           |Internet: yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU
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Jeffrey Smoot
Apple.GS.Columbus