First post, by RetroSpector78
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Hi,
To what extend can floppies be used to automatically copy datasets from/to hard drives that exceeds the size of the floppy thus forcing you to split the data across different floppies.
Context is an old XT class machine with an MFM drive. No Compact Flash or network.
For example : Imagine I have 10MB folder with data that I want to either get on or get off an old system and the only way to do it is floppies.
Obviously you can do it manually, but what tool can be used to facilitate the automatically spreading of that data across different disks, and merging everything back together when I want to put it on another machine, without having to manually partition the data across disks
I remember using pkzip to create multi-disk archives
PKZIP -&rp a:\data.zip c:\data
PKUNZIP -d A:\data.zip
Are there other alternatives ?
Thx