From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 6:11:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vvi.com (vvionly.penn.com [208.22.30.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A2837B41E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 06:11:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.229.112.1] (HELO vvih001) by vvi.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5) with ESMTP id 790958; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:15:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:15:46 -0500 Subject: Re: splitting mac .hqx file to fit on two disks (and reassmbling?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v472) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Richard E. Hawkins" From: Lance Bland In-Reply-To: <200204021401.g32E1Tf02432@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Message-Id: <2017E746-4644-11D6-81C1-0030659A531A@vvi.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.472) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I need to bring a 1.9m hqx file home for the kids' mac (nethack, of > course :) > > I need to find something that lets me split it under freebsd in a way > that the mac can reassemble it (and my mack knowledge is long out of > date--ppc indeed :) Upgrade your mac to Mac OS X, which is, essentially, FreeBSD based. And then use the "split" command from the Unix Terminal Window (and then cat to cat them together on mac os x): man split man: Formatting manual page... SPLIT(1) System Reference Manual SPLIT(1) NAME split - split a file into pieces SYNOPSIS split [-b byte_count[k|m]] [-l line_count] [file [name]] _______________________________________________ Lance Bland System Administrator at VVI mailto:lance.bland@vvi.com http://www.vvi.com Realtime, bulk and web data reporting and visualization To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message