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Restoring ancient zip file spanning floppy disks: pkzipfix equivalents?
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Mar 15, 20263208 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm about to attempt something odd, and before I wasted time going down the wrong paths, I thought I'd see if anyone here has done this before. I have a zip file created in DOS (in 1997?) with pkzip that is spanning several old floppy disks. As expected, some of these disks aren't in the best shape…
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cat /dev/fd0 > floppyxx.img
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I had some partial success and was able to get some files out of the archive. First, I created an "fd" directory to mount those floppy images, then for each floppy image, I did the following: Once I had a combined archive, I did this: There are fewe…
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