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- From: oberto@genes.icgeb.trieste.it (Jacques Oberto)
- Subject: Re: Breaking up a HUGE file safely
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.090951.28029@genes.icgeb.trieste.it>
- Organization: ICGEB
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:09:51 GMT
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- >> -> 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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- DOD has two commands to do just what you want:
- BACKUP can easily break up a huge file to fill several disks,
- it will even prompt you to insert a new disk
- RESTORE does the reverse.
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- Jacques
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- Jacques Oberto <oberto@genes.icgeb.trieste.it>
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