downloading to disk

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Allows disk spanning

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Steven Burn
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wrote in message
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The only disks I could ever find were all 1.44mb nothing
in the line of games fits on that. How would you download
onto several disks? Just remove one when it gets full and
insert another? Please excuse my stupitidy. Learning on my
own.
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ZIP is very suitable for this problem. Look for an
option called
'spanning' - it is designed to enable you to create a ZIP
file that is
spread across several floppies and is then re-combined
when you restore from
the ZIP files to the other computer. Note that ZIP won't
assist with
downloading these files - you use ZIP after the files
have been downloaded
to your computer to prepare them for copying to the other
computer. You can
ZIP a ZIP file - it won't shrink in size, but the
procedure gives you access
to the spanning option which is what you need to do the
copy. You then unzip
it twice - once to get it from several floppies onto the
other machine's
hard drive, then a second time as part of the
installation procedure.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Anna" wrote in
message
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I want to download some games for my son's computer that
isn't on line but the games take up more space than the
disk allows. I don't know much about zip files but, is
that what I have to do to download games? Can anyone
tell
me a simple way to do it?


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When you use the spanning option to copy a file across multiple floppies it
will tell you when to change disks.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
wrote in message
...
The only disks I could ever find were all 1.44mb nothing
in the line of games fits on that. How would you download
onto several disks? Just remove one when it gets full and
insert another? Please excuse my stupitidy. Learning on my
own.