multifloppy

A shell script to copy long files into several floppy disks

multifloppy tar (if necessary) compress, uuencoded and split (currently only in 1.4M blocks) the input files or directories. Then copy the generated files in a number of floppy disks. Later, all the process can be reversed in the target computer through the script refloppy

Basic Usage:

In the first Computer just type multifloppy and the file, files, type of files (*.tex or * for all) or the directory to
be stored into the floppy disks:

[diego@nac12 work]$ multifloppy file1 file2 file3
***** processing information ****
Insert floppy 1
***** copying into the first disk ****
Insert floppy 2
***** copying into the second disk ****
***** and so on (maximum 20 floppy disks) ****
[diego@nac12 work]$

In the target computer just type refloppy and the file or all the stored tree, will be restored

[restrepo@localhost texfile]$ refloppy
Insert floppy 1
        ***** copying from the first disk ****
Insert floppy 2
         ***** copying from the second disk ****
        ***** and so on (maximum 20 floppy disks) ****
file1
file2
file3
[restrepo@localhost texfile]$

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Installation

[diego@nac12 work]$ tar -zxvf multifloppy-0.0.2.tgz
multifloppy-0.0.2/
multifloppy-0.0.2/multifloppy
multifloppy-0.0.2/multifloppyaux
multifloppy-0.0.2/refloppy
multifloppy-0.0.2/README
[diego@nac12 work]$ cd multifloppy-0.0.2/
chown a+x multifloppy multifloppyaux refloppy if necessary and put them somewhere on your path.

Author: Diego Restrepo