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Re: Span big file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Mon Nov 16 19:18:10 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:18:34 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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"Frank N. Stein" wrote:
>
> > I have a big "?tar.gz" file in my Win98 system.
> > I want to copy the above file to my RedHat system, in another
> > computer.
> > The two computers are not in a network. This job must be done using
> > floppies.
> > How can I span the file in two or three disks ?
>
> There's a file I found (sorry I don't recall where it came from -
> Sunsite I think) that will split files into several parts in sizes you
> specify. It works well with Linux and even comes with a 'Doze exe file
> so it can be used across OSs. It's called
> filesplt<something-or-other>.tar.gz.
>
> I've used the 'Doze version of it before to move between computers
> prior to getting Linux installed. It worked like a charm.
>
> I can mail it to you (or anyone else) if you'd like. Due to the
> possibility of more than one request, I'll only be able to mail it out
> once per day so it might be around 24 hours before anyone receives it.
Ouch. If on a un*x system, cpio does disk spanning. Otherwise, <spit>
use pkzip span disks, copy all the disks to the redhat system, cat them
all together and unzip (warning msgs are exected). Words fine, but not
suggested.
Don't ya hate sneaker-net? :-)
J
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Jeff Sharpe
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