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re: Making Win95 floppies from CD
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 5:22 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Scullion
(18 messages posted)
Jerry,
Thanks again. The cutzit program will indeed cut up binary files and is re-assembled
via dos. The procedure does the above without changing the original file. The author
was David Roper from North Carolina.
I'm going to continue with your suggestion of using Win98 instead of win 2000.
I appreciate your interest.
Ed
On Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 9:56 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi Ed:
>
>If that CUTZIT file splitter will split BINARY
>files, that may be the easiest way to go. You can
>test it on one of those "CAB" files. CUTZIT
>should chop it into two files, each of which
>should be small enough to fit on a STANDARD 1.44MB
>floppy. Let's say it outputs two files called
>PIECE.1 and PIECE.2
>
>Then, try assembling the two pieces back together
>in DOS with this command:
>
>COPY piece.1/b + piece.2/b output.cab /v
>
>(OUTPUT.CAB is the name you want the reassembled
>file to be. Remember -- this is DOS -- "8.3" file
>names only, please!) Also notice there are some
>spaces in the command -- I have exaggerated each
>space by typing three spaces, but you really only
>need one space at each place a space is shown.
>Note also the angle of the slashes ("/").
>
>Now compare the SIZE of the reassembled file with
>the size of the original. If it's the same, then
>you're in business. It's just going to take more
>floppy disks -- or -- if you don't need to save
>the disks, just use one disk at a time and
>reassemble each CAB file on the target hard drive
>one-at-a-time.
>
>Jerry
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