Unzipping multiple files

[wenchuen]

Hi guys! I have a series of zip files, numbered 1,2,3,4 and 5. They are originally in 5 different 1.44mb floppy discs and are a continuation of a series of files. I have them all in my hard drive and I can't extract 5 of them properly. When they are in separate disks, winzip automatically prompt the insertion of the next disk for the next files but now it didn't work. What should I do?

[Ruler2112]

I know it's clunky, but the easiest and quickest way may be just to copy each file to a floppy, then unzip from there. Afterwards, you could always zip up the result into a single file so you won't have this problem in the future.

[wenchuen]

oh yeah! didn't think of that! but i don't have any floppy

[itstheh]

When it promps for the next disc, isn't therea browse push button you can use to locate the next file manually??

If there's not, then grab Winrar, I haven't used winzip since I first found it many moons ago.

http://www.rarsoft.com/

I am pretty sure that its shareware, orat least you can get ademo copy with limited facilities.

[ryan200]

winrar is shareware that expires after 30 das no limitation on functionality but a nice reminder.

i would be interested if that would work on a spanned floppy set of files made with winzip though

[wenchuen]

Yeah, I have winrar too. I'll try to unzip it with winrar and let u guys know.

[wenchuen]

Can't! It won't prompt for the next file after extracting the first file!

[meese]

This is what you need to do in WINZIP:

First of all, when you span a zip file to multiple floppies and you want to unzip the set, you need to start with the LAST disk in the archive. That being said this is what you need to do to unzip a multiple disk zip floppy from a hard drive that has all off the "sections".

1) Create a folder called unzip (or what ever you want).
2) Create 5 subfolders in this folder called file1, file2, file3, file4 and file5
3)Copy the 1st section to file1, copy the 2nd section to file2, etc.
4)Now make sure each section in each subfolder has the original name of the zip file, if not rename the section.
5)Now double click the file in subfolder file5. (This should e the last section of the archive). Winzip should now ask where the next section is located, tell it c:\unzip\file4 and so on until the file is unzipped.

My original problem was I copied all the sections to one folder and renamed each section since you can't have the same file name in one folder. Winzip didn't like that.

[wenchuen]

Thanks for your help Meese.

I did exactly what you said but it didn't work. It still didn't prompt for the next file. I clicked properties on the archieve and it said the host OS is MSDOS. I think it must be expanded in DOS using pkunzip. That program is very old and I don't think I can obtain it anywhere.

Actually the archieve is a game called Psycho Pinball by Codemasters. It's a 1995 game based on DOS and originally in 5 floppies.

[meese]

If you send me those files I can unzip it for you. I have multiple dos pc's with pkzip. I'm serious, send me the files, I'll unzip them, then re-zip them using winzip or not zip them at all and send them back to you. PM me if you want to do that.