Copying adf to amiga(Splitting files up to copy?)

[z36ra]

I don't know if this is what you need or not.
step one involves aquiring an archive util that will uncompress zip or rar on the amiga platform and install it.
step two is to compress the adf in zip or rar and place the file on a PC 720K floppy and move it to the amiga on 720K PC floppy and read it with MSH or CrossDOS.
step three is to extract the adf to ramdisk or some other location.
step four is to aquire Transdisk available on AmigaForever or Aminet.net and follow the directions for writing the ADF to disk.

[z36ra]

hmm... after reading the post again I see that I ddint answer your question.
However, there was some information that was actually useful.
Use Transdisk. The command to copy to two disks looks something like this:
transdisk >RAM:df0a.adf -s 0 -e 39
this will write half of the adf to a PC formatted floppy in drive df0.
do it again for the next half on another PC formatted disk:
transdisk >RAM:df0a.adf -s 40 -e 79
After copying both files to PC use this command to combine them on your PC:
copy /b df0a.adf+df0b.adf df0.adf
That makes a file called df0.adf and is the original adf file on the amiga.

[z36ra]

teotwin wrote:
Im not sure why you dont want to use a null modem cable as opposed to a floppy because of speed? compressing a file, copying it to disk, moving it to amiga then uncompressing is far slower than a direct copy via a null modem serial cable!

If you change your mind ive put up a "how to" for making a serial cable on Amiga Monkey How To - null modem cable

have you actually done this? Have I set mine up wrong? I've never timed it but null modem takes forever! I could copy 2 or 3 disks in the time it takes to download a half meg file on my A1200.