Will pkzip for DOS Work with 5.25" 1.2 MB Diskettes?

[Shaina11]

So I need to span a ZIP file over several floppies and I have heard of pkzip for DOS, and how it works for 3.5" 1.44 MB floppies, but will it also work for 1.2 MB 5.25" floppies? And perhaps 720 KB 3.5" floppies?

Please reply soon, thank you.

 

[USAFRet]

So I need to span a ZIP file over several floppies and I have heard of pkzip for DOS, and how it works for 3.5" 1.44 MB floppies, but will it also work for 1.2 MB 5.25" floppies? And perhaps 720 KB 3.5" floppies?

Please reply soon, thank you.

Yes, probably.

But WHY? Do you have 5.25 floppies that are still readable? And a relevant drive to read them?
What are you trying to do?

 

[Shaina11]

The reason why is because I am trying to recreate installing DOS games from floppies. Thus I have some downloaded games from abandonia and such. In zip format, if compressed and spanned across floppies, it could be decompressed and installed on DOS without using the install application in the game, which of course does not work if you don't have the original floppy images.

This also allows me to copy larger programs over to Win 9x machines that don't have an optical drive or USB ports. (Flash drives can be used when you have third-party drivers such as NUSB for Windows 98/SE and XUSBSUPP for Windows 95.)

 

[USAFRet]

Do you have the relevant functioning drives?

 

[Shaina11]

Sure do, at least 3.5" and several unused floppies, will be getting 5.25" soon.

 

[USAFRet]

But yes...pkzip will span 5.25" floppies just like 3.5" floppies

 

[Shaina11]

Thanks for the help and information, I appreciate it. I know this probably isn't a typical everyday question lol. I'm just an oddball that loves old technology.

 

[jsmithepa]

pkzip dos shouldn't care what media you use, it writes-and-writes-and-writes, and as soon as it gets a "media full" message, the spanning mechanism will kick in.

Don't tell me floppies have a "warmer" feeling to it. 😀

 

[CountMike]

Why not, I still have an Atari 520 ST with 3.5" 720 FDD in working order but no way to get it on internet to DL software. I have to do it thru my regular computer using 720 diskettes and USB FDD.