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tiny C compiler query? (to fit on floppy)

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rtgwbmsr:
You could dig up an older version of the GCC here

If you are like me, you can either:
A) Get a fucking CD-ROM drive. What do they cost now, $20?

B) If you are psycho, you could get a USB card and boot Linux with a newer GCC off of a pen drive or a USB HDD (Linux on Pen drives is the shit!).

[ November 30, 2002: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

voidmain:
You can always split files up that are bigger than the size of a floppy and then put them back together when you get them on the hard drive.

$ split -b 1400000 file.tar.gz

Which will split the file into 1400000 size pieces  and name the pieces of the file "xaa", "xab", "xac", etc. Then copy each piece to floppy, transfer them to your hard drive on the other machine, then cat them back together again:

$ cat xaa xab xac xad xae xaf > file.tar.gz

Of course there are many other ways, this just being one of them.

flap:
Couldn't you take a cd drive from another machine and just temporarily install it in that one?

Calum:
i could... except that both machines i own (and both the other machines in the house) are all laptops!!!! pretty shitty all round. i am tired of laptops and their idiosyncracies, but they are certainly the most versatile if you have less room and might want to move around.

void main, thank you for that! i think that split will be great! very simple to use too. i still haven't got used to using normal utilities like 'cat' for so many different purposes! i would never have thought of that, but it is obvious after somebody tells you about it!  

thanks again.

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