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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:12:17 GMT
From:      James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com>
To:        jeff@stat.uconn.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Archiving
Message-ID:  <199604260012.AAA02245@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <9604242020.AA20068@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> (jeff@stat.uconn.edu)

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>>>>> jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a program available on FreeBSD that can
> split a large binary file into smaller pieces which can be reassembled
> at a later date.  My only backup storage media right now are 1.44MB
> floppies and I have a tar-gzipped file that cannot be repacked into
> smaller pieces to fit on a floppy.

Yes, something like

$ split -b1440k filename filename.

will split filename into 1.44M files called filename.aa, filename.ab,
and so on.

Cheers
James



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