[WinMac] segmenting .exe files on a Mac
CElhardt@aol.com
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:06:47 EDT
I think I've already solved this with a clumsy workaround but want to be
better prepared next time.
We wanted the Win95 drivers to an HP scanner, which drivers are available
from the HP web site. None of the machines at work have modems and the
intranet, or our piece of it, won't access the internet. Thus, I easily
downloaded the drivers and upgraded software from their website from home
on my powerBook 5300 (no, it has never caught fire). Although they
appear to be .exe files, they're actually self-extracting archives.
I figured I could use zipIt to split one of the 3Mb+ files into a couple
segments and then transfer the segments onto pc-formatted floppies. A
couple of the smaller files that fit onto one floppy unpacked perfectly
on the pc but I couldn't get the split files to reassemble correctly,
either with zipIt or with stuffIt.
I wound up going back home with a pc-formatted zipdisk and copied the
entire set onto the zip. Should work fine, but I'll know for sure
tomorrow. By the way, the mac version of HP Scanjet fits on 800K while
the Win95 version takes up 9 floppies in 4 self extracting files. Even
then, you've got to know if your target platform is microchannel, ISA,
EISA, or something called NEC-PC ; but only one, small, recently updated
(July97) version for all Macs.
The question: is there a utility that could split a large .exe file into
segments on a mac for transfer to pc-formatted floppies?
chris.
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's
how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy
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