Re: [SLUG] split and join?

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:57:50PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
> 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?

ras may be able to help as well.

$ apt-cache show ras
...
Description: Adds redundancy files to archives for data recovery.
 Ras is a program that adds m extra files to a set of n files, such
 that the contents of the n original files can be regenerated from any
 n of the n+m original files and extra files. Normally, these extra
 files will all be 6 bytes larger then the largest of the original
 files, but ras has a mode in which the extra files are exactly the
 same size as the original files.
 .
 Ras was originally intended for transporting a large file split over
 several floppy disks in a manner resilient to the corruption of a few
 of the disks, and a pair of example shell scripts to do this (rassplit
 and rasmerge) is included in the distribution.

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/ras-1.03.tar.gz

Anand
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