Re: [AD] Proposal to add a tutorial in doc folder

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:02:44 +0100 Hein Zelle <hein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I think the best solution is to not use any specific zip program at
>all: just take the finished archive (tgz, zip, whichever one is most
>general) and use split. That means the user is responsible for glueing
>the parts back together, but since not many people will use this I
>don't think that's much of a problem.
>
>Split is a uniform program, and every system I know has a way of
>glueing files together: cat, copy, you name it. It is not the most
>friendly solution for endusers, but it will always work. Keep in mind
>that things like pkzip are not a very good solution as they are, in
>principle, not cross-platform (and definitely not the multi-volume part).

One can use the DOS copy command to join files? I never knew that... 
I still think using RAR would be the most portable solution, since it *is* cross
platform. However, if there are licencing problems we can't use it and split
would seem to be the most reasonable alternative.