[Gllug] Large files

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Fri Sep 21 15:34:30 UTC 2001


----- 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?

Will.


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