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I was able to install debian on my laptop with a bunch of floppy disks that I was able to download. I have now gotten used to the command line environment and would like to add some programs. Unfortunately it appears that the debian package that I installed did not include gcc. I found lxsplit which would allow me to split the files that I have downloaded on my xp machine (like emacs, xwindows, etc.) put them on a floppy disk and rejoin them on my laptop to install. How ever lxsplit comes in source code only and I can't compile it. The GCC code and dep packages all seem to be too big to fit on a disk. I've been looking for my PC Card ethernet card but haven't found it yet. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mark Fischer.

I'm not sure I understand the question, but to rejoin split files in linux you can use the "cat" command.

Sorry, I was tired when I wrote all that. I used HJSplit to split Xdoc.tgz into Xdoc.tgz.001 and Xdoc.tgz.002. Can I use cat to rejoin them? I ready the man file and I'm not sure what my command line should look like. What do I type in to join these two files back together? Thanks, Mark Fischer.

Oops, sorry I forgot about output redirection.
To rejoin Xdoc.tgz.001 and Xdoc.tgz.002 you could try the following command:
The ">" command should redirect the output of cat from standard output to the single file Xdoc.tgz, thereby effectively concatenating the files.
I hope that works.

JJ