Re: multiple disk spanning for Big files

[kf <ken cleveland lug net>]

I know this is an old question, but I've been trying to catch up with my
email and no one else has answered the question.

Use the "split" command to break up the large file into small ones.  Then,
when you want to put them together again, use "cat".  I haven't used
"split" in a long time, so I don't know the exact syntax you want to use;
consult "man split" or "info split".  And, yes, you can use "split" on
tarred and/or gzipped files.

hth,
kf

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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, UK Jaiswal wrote:

= Hi,
= 
= What would be the way to copy very big files on to floppies in linux. In
= DOS, you could "pkzip -& a:xyz.zip big_file.exe"
= I tried using "tar -cMvf /mnt/floppy/xyz.tar 8_mb_file.tar.gz" but it
= did not work.
= 
= Uk
= 
= 
= 
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