Re: [SLUG] split and join?

["Ian Ward" <ian@nospam.cyberpro.com.au>]

I think what you need is tar.

Try "tar -M -cvf /dev/fd0 filename"

Read the man page and it will explain multivolume archives.

If you used tar -M -zcvf /dev/fd0 filename ,  you might fit it into one
floppy as the "z" says gzip compression (executables compress very nicely)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Donohue" <donohueb@nospam.bvm.com.au>
To: <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, 18 June 2000 3:57 PM
Subject: [SLUG] split and join?


> hi slugs,
> i want to split a large file to two floppies and then join them together
> on  another machine.
>
> so i looked around and found split and join executables.
> so i split the file. so far so good
>
> can't seem to join it. if join is the right command.
>
> how do you join up files that have been split?
> i.e xaa + xab into a new file called zzz for instance?
>
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