[Gllug] Large files

[will]

----- Original Message -----
From: "will" <will at hellacool.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Large files


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Stewart" <sms at lateral.net>
> To: "GLLUG mailing list" <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 3:31 PM
> Subject: [Gllug] Large files
>
> <snip>
> > lewd:/backups1# split -b 650m rude-2001-09-20-usrlocal.bz2
> > split: rude-2001-09-20-usrlocal.bz2: Value too large for defined data
type
>
> 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?

or even

#split -b 1400000 big-file.tar.gz

works.  Doh.


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