[linux-help] Re: Splitting a large file over multiple floppies.

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a program called 'split' that will split a file into smaller ones...
you could then copy the smaller files to the floppies.
To rejoin them later, do something like:

cat filename1 filename2 filename3 > fullfile


On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 06:54:08PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> Anyone know of how to split a large file over several floppies ala
> pkzip -& option under DOS?  I could save them to a DOS partition here
> and reboot into DOS and do it there, but is there a way under Linux?
> Is there a FM?
> 
> - Nate >>
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