POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Splitter : Re: Splitter Server Time
2 Jul 2024 23:41:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Splitter  
From: TinCanMan
Date: 3 Sep 2002 12:04:03
Message: <3d74dd73$1@news.povray.org>
> Are you sure you can use WinZip that way, to actually _split_ a file?  I
> could see compressing the other files into various zipped packages,
> especially the ones that are only text or html, but the pov binary itself
> is over the size of a floppy, and cannot be compressed but so much....  (I
> should think)
> The utility I was talking about can actually split files that weren't
meant
> to be split, and glue them back together.
> --Mark W


You are supposed to be able to.  See WinZIP help regarding multiple volumes.
It appears you need to create a new archive, add the files you want and save
the .zip to the a:, WinZIP will prompt when you need to add another disk.
But as I said, I prefer WinRAR, much easier to use, especially for volumes.

-tgq


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