[Gllug] Large files

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Fri Sep 21 15:43:17 UTC 2001


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:34:30PM +0100, will wrote:
> 
> Something sort of related to this.  If I do:
> 
> #split -b 1.4m big-file.tar.gz
> 
> to get a file down to floppy diskable sized files, can I just cat them
> together at the other end or is there something else I need to do?

catting the files together works just fine: used to use the same
method to hoik large archives from uni on to my home machine.

Cheers,

Simon

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