I'd like to see the windows POV installer divided into floppy-fitting chunks
so I can take it from work (fast connection) to home (catatonic turtle
connection).  Or I could just download a splitter utility myself....
Where should/could I suggest this?
--Mark

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"LibraryMan" <mrm### [at] attnet> wrote in message
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> I'd like to see the windows POV installer divided into floppy-fitting
chunks
> so I can take it from work (fast connection) to home (catatonic turtle
> connection).  Or I could just download a splitter utility myself....
> Where should/could I suggest this?
> --Mark

To do it yourself you could use either WinZIP (www.winzip.com), WinRAR
(www.rarlab.com/) or WinACE (www.winace.com/), all you are supposed to buy
but can 'evaluate'.  I prefer WinRAR myself.

-tgq

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LibraryMan wrote:
> 
> I'd like to see the windows POV installer divided into floppy-fitting chunks
> so I can take it from work (fast connection) to home (catatonic turtle
> connection).  Or I could just download a splitter utility myself....
> Where should/could I suggest this?

Floppy - that are these tiny plastic things formerly used for transporting
and storing data, right? ;-) 

Yes, those good old times...

I guess you will have to split it up yourself.

Christoph

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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

TinCanMan wrote:
>"LibraryMan" <mrm### [at] attnet> wrote in message
>news:web.3d74cdb5a8d359cf2b597c920[at]news.povray.org...
>> I'd like to see the windows POV installer divided into floppy-fitting
>chunks
>> so I can take it from work (fast connection) to home (catatonic turtle
>> connection).  Or I could just download a splitter utility myself....
>> Where should/could I suggest this?
>> --Mark
>
>To do it yourself you could use either WinZIP (www.winzip.com, WinRAR
>(www.rarlab.com/) or WinACE (www.winace.com/), all you are supposed to buy
>but can 'evaluate'.  I prefer WinRAR myself.
>
>-tgq
>


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"LibraryMan" <mrm### [at] attnet> wrote in message
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> 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.


    Yes - It's called Multiple Disk Spanning - the option to do this becomes
available in the WinZip Add dialog if you set the location of the target zip
file to be on a floppy...

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Software Engineer.
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> 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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web.3d74cdb5a8d359cf2b597c920@news.povray.org...
> I'd like to see the windows POV installer divided into floppy-fitting
chunks
> so I can take it from work (fast connection) to home (catatonic turtle
> connection).  Or I could just download a splitter utility myself....
> Where should/could I suggest this?

Try Hacha (Axe). It's a small program (19Kb) that split your files in the
size you want.
Very very useful. I've been using it all august and it is the easiest
program of its kind I've
ever had.
The link is (for the english language):
http://leodonaire.tripod.com/uk.htm
For the spanish language
http://leodonaire.tripod.com/

Hope this helps

Txemi Jendrix
tji### [at] txemijendrixcom
http://www.txemijendrix.com

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"LibraryMan" <mrm### [at] attnet> wrote in message
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<snip>

As others have noted winzip (and pkzip) can do this, but, iirc, you have to be
writing to the disk directly, which can be a pain.

I've got a perl-script that will split and unsplit a file into user-specified
chunks (I wrote it to handle breaking up very large binary files into CD-sized
chunks).

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WinRAR will break it up into floppy sized pieces right on the hard disk.

-tgq

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I use a tiny free program called "Split" that was written by Syed Nasir
Alsagoff of Snake Soft in 1997. It will split any file, and also outputs
a BAT file that contains all the commands needed to join the bits
correctly at the other end. The recipient of the split file doesn't need
to have a copy of Split in order to reconstruct the original file. 

It's small, free, fast and does the job, but you have to run it from a
DOS prompt.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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