[plug] Unzipping Winzip spanned floppies in Linux

[Phillip Steege]

I got the answer from alt.os.linux.
mount /mnt/floppy, which will mount the floppy device and determine the fisk
format.
DO NOT REMOVE THE FLOPPY WITHOUT FIRST UNMOUNTING.
Copy all the files to a Linux dir, using the standard > methods: kfm, cp,
etc.
Make sure to name the files in the correct sequence: zip1, sip2, zip3,
etc....
 Concatenate all the zip files together into one file:
  cat zip1 zip2 zip3 > bigzip.zip
"Fix" the concatenated zip file:
 zip -F bigzip.zip
4. Use unzip to unpack. Type "unzip" to get a brief unzip help.

Thanks for the response.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au>
To: "Plug List" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Unzipping Winzip spanned floppies in Linux


> man unzip - there's a workaround in the bugs section.  Also check for a
> later version, they imply its in the next version!  Run unzip -v for
> sites.
>
> BillK
>
> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 00:11, Steege, Phil E wrote:
> > I had a large file on a Win2K machine which I zipped onto four floppies.
> > I have used Linux unzip command for other Winzip files which were on a
> > single floppy, but not a spanned one.
> > What Linux tool will unzip a large file which has been spanned?
> > Can I just unzip each of the four zip files and concatenate them somehow
?
> >
> > Phil
> >
>