downloading a large file to several floppy discs

I want to download a large webpage from the Internet to
one or more floppy discs. How can I have the system alert
me when one disc is full and then prompt me to insert the
next disc?

Download it to your hard drive and then use a file splitter to reduce the
file to 1.2 mb chunks which can then be put on floppy disks.

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"allan" wrote in message
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I want to download a large webpage from the Internet to
one or more floppy discs. How can I have the system alert
me when one disc is full and then prompt me to insert the
next disc?

Alternatively, if the purpose of putting the files on disk
is so you can simply transfer it from one computer to
another, you can use a program like WinRAR, WinZIP, or
WinACE, to compress the desired files into an archive that
can span several disks. (You'll need to save the files to
your hard drive first, but that's easy.)

The archive can even be made self-extracting so you won't
need WinRAR (or whatever program you use) on the target
computer; the archive becomes a program you can run just
like an installer.

Another advantage of compressing the data is that you
probably won't need nearly as many disks. This also means
less time spent reading the disks.

Of course, there are also a lot of potential alternatives
to using floppy disks: CD-RW drives, USB pen drives, USB
hard drives, USB readers for those CompactFlash cards that
can hold up to 1 GB (Yikes!)... In a pinch, even most
digital cameras themselves can be used as external hard
drives! Isn't technology wonderful?

Hope this helps.
StevenRoy

-----Original Message-----
Download it to your hard drive and then use a file
splitter to reduce the
file to 1.2 mb chunks which can then be put on floppy
disks.

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"allan" wrote in message
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I want to download a large webpage from the Internet to
one or more floppy discs. How can I have the system
alert
me when one disc is full and then prompt me to insert
the
next disc?