Hi,
I have a problem.
I just downloaded a RPM file from the internet and the size is 1.9MB. I saved into my C drive. They i use winzip to compress it and save it into A: drive/floppy. It required 2 diskettes to store the file. Actually i want to transfer the RPM file to Linux Redhat PC. May i know how to decompress the file which i compressed into diskette just now?
thanks.

man unzip

Cheers,
Tink

I need to 'man unzip' again myself but I think he's going to have trouble. As far as I know, gunzip and such is pkzip-compatible (mostly) but doesn't support multi-volume PKZip-type archives.

I'm guessing you don't have a dual boot machine, a Linux and Windows box networked, a CD burner, or a connection to the net with Linux? Because any of those would get you around the multi-floppy transfer issue.

There are some *nix utilities for DOS/Win and Cygwin, of course. Maybe unpack it in Windows and copy two halves to two floppies in unpacked form and copy them back to one directory in Linux. *g*

But maybe I'm out of it and you can just unzip it.

Multi-part archives are not yet supported, except in con-
junction with zip. (All parts must be concatenated
together in order, and then ``zip -F'' must be performed
on the concatenated archive in order to ``fix'' it.) This
will definitely be corrected in the next major release.

Cheers,
Tink

Is anyone can help me to give me the command to extract the zip file from multiple span disk?
i don't understand the unzip man. it's too complicated.

I'm taking bits of pieces of the above conversation, but try this:
Copy all the files from both floppies to a single location. You might even create a temp directory for this to ensure that's all that is in that location. Then, after the files are in a place you can find easily, open up a console and type:
cd /path/to/files
cat file1.zip file2.zip > single.zip

Changing /path/to/files to the actual location, and file1.zip and file2.zip to the actual filenames.

After that run:
zip -F single.zip
This repairs the zip from the cat'ing, and then:
unzip single.zip
To have it unzipped and working.

HTH

Cool

You should encourage people to
think rather than thinking for them
Master ;} ... we don't want a new
monopoly of knowledge and thought ;)

Cheers,
Tink

Just use gunzip, its much easier than a command line...

Command lines have their place. File manipulation usually isn't one of them.

Unless I'm missing something, isn't gunzip a utility used to uncompress gzipped files? I know if I call gunzip, I get an error because it's looking for a gzipped file, all in the command line.

Could you clarify, or link us to, the application you are referring to?

Tink:
I know, I know I agree, but things like this probably don't come along often enough for them to need to know how to do it, not yet anyway.



Cool

gnozip, sorry...

I beleive it is a graphical front end for a command line program, but it makes it easier to work with, which is, after all, the point of a gui.