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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!r-node!shadow
- From: shadow@r-node.gts.org (Jay Chu)
- Subject: Re: Breaking up a HUGE file safely
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.222738.10011@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: Microsoft, Canada
- References: <2951.2B09361E@catpe.alt.za>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:27:38 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <2951.2B09361E@catpe.alt.za> Shane.Greyvenstein@f61.n7101.z5.fidonet.org (Shane Greyvenstein) writes:
- >In a msg of <14 Nov 92>, Jay Chu writes to All:
- >
- > -> Is there a safe method for breaking this HUGE file up into
- > -> smaller files like 1.2 meg each? Then, using a combining method,
- > -> I can combine the smaller files into the original file again? --
- >
- >I use ARJ as a compression program, and it has a nifty feature capable of this. The format would be something to the effect of
- >
- >ARJ a [path]archivename [path][filespec] -v1200000
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- How do you reverse the process and combine the broken files together?
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