At 04:44 PM 10/17/2000, Charlie Marsh wrote:
>There is a procedure that I have used to save a large document on several floppies
>where, when the first floppy was full, I was notified to insert another. Unfortunately,
>it has been several years and I have forgotten how to do it.  Usually, if a file is too
>large, there is a message that says to use a higher capacity disk, but with this method
>that is not necessary.  I am not sure if this works on all types of files and  I am
>wondering if any of you know if it is possible to save an AVI file on several floppies
>using this method.  If it isn't possible with AVI files, I would still like to know the
>procedure for other files.  Any thoughts?  TIA Charlie Marsh


When it comes to saving a data file, there is nothing special about AVI files.
You can save them just like any other file, such as documents.

Zip file compression was one of the earliest ways to do this.  PKZip or Winzip
will span disks, (write a file to multiple floppy disks), as will many other such
zip programs.
    http://www.pkzip.com           http://www.winzip.com

There are numerous backup utilities that will do this also and programs written
specifically to break a file into floppy size pieces, such as DLSPLIT:
    http://dlawlis.pair.com/        Then, you can use it to put the file back into
one large file when it is copied to your hard drive again.

     Bob Wright
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