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Subject: [linux-help] Re: Splitting a large file over multiple floppies.
From: Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:20:12 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-to: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx 
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> 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

IIRC, you need 'copy /b file1 + file2 + file3 destination_name
in DOS. That is, if you're restoring the zip file in DOS.

-jeff
-- 
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