On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote:
>
> Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a
> tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read
> mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I
> do that.
>
> Alternative is downloading it and compressing later using WINZIP
> (aaaargh!). This is 'cuz I connect to my server (Debian Linux) from
> Faculty (Windows 98).
>
> Thanx in Advance.
>
> --
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> Xavier Gutierrez Muņoz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Freedom is nothing but the chance to do better.
> -- Camus
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Hi Xavier,
have a look at the unix command split. man split is a good place to
start.
split -b1000k your.file
will generate files xaa, xab, ... each (execpt the last on) of size 1000k.
To assemble them again just make
cat xaa > your.new.file
cat xab >> your new.file #mind the >>
cat xac >> your.new.file
and so on.
Cheers,
Matthias
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