Hi Chris. My first operating system experience besides MS-dos back in those dark days, was Unix via a dos terminal connected through ethernet. First it was sun os and later one flavor of unix or other, such as Freebsd, sco unix, linux etc. So I know exactly what you are talking about. However, I haven’t used anything like that for the last 5 years or so. Thats a pity of course. As mac users, we have lots of powerful tools via the terminal that we don’t take advantage of. By the way, after some research that I have done, I found a great utility that does exactly what I need and more that is voice over frienndly and free from the mac Appstore. The name of this application is Ipackr and as I said it has a great graphical GUI.
Regards. Nektarios. > On 15 Dec 2015, at 16:51, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Back in the day there were lots of these little utilities but now that you > have full access to unix in the terminal it's not really worth a developer's > time to recreate a GUI version of a text command. I'm sure they are out there > but most of the stuff I found when googling around had step #1 as "launch > terminal". I'm sure somebody could make an app which is just an AppleScript > wrapper around the split command. There are so many powerful little tools in > terminal that it's really a good thing to get familiar with them. What makes > them even more useful is that you can chain them together so the output from > one tool becomes the input to another. On top of that is the whole shell > script universe which can glue a pile of terminal commands together with user > input and scheduled launches etc. > > CB > > On 12/14/15 5:52 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: >> Hay Chris. >> That was not what I expected as a solution but I like it. <smile> >> I will certainly try that. Although, It would be a lot easier if I had a >> graphical user interface to deal with this problem. >> Thanks again. >> >> Nektarios. >> >>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 00:03, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'd just compress it first and then segment it afterwards. You can compress >>> the folder or file in the finder without too much trouble. To break it into >>> chunks I'd do that in terminal. Launch terminal and cd to wherever the zip >>> file is. If it was on your desktop you would do "cd ~/Desktop". Then you >>> can do "split -b50m your_filename.zip" the 50m means to split the source >>> file into 50 megabyte chunks. Each chunk will be named xaa xab xac etc. To >>> put them all back together you use "cat x* > your_filename.zip" Of course >>> make sure you don't have any other files in the same directory that start >>> with X or they will be added to the reconstituted file and probably ruin it. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 12/14/15 4:15 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: >>>> Hi guys. >>>> Well, the subject says it all, I think. >>>> I need an application that will allow me to create compressed files and be >>>> able to specify a certain file size. >>>> For those of you who use windows something like winrar or similar. >>>> >>>> Any help is very much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Nektarios. >>>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>> Visionaries list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >>> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >>> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >>> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >>> >>> The archives for this list can be searched at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >>> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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