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- From: hofstoet@vanessa.fmi.uni-passau.de (Hans Ulrich Hofstoetter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: splitting up files
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:59:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Passau, Germany
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- Sender: hofstoet@vanessa (Hans Ulrich Hofstoetter)
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- References: <1993Jan15.223834.15075@nosc.mil>
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- In article <1993Jan15.223834.15075@nosc.mil>, shall@obiwan.nosc.mil (Scott R. Hall) writes:
- > Hello, I was wondering if anyone out there new of a way to split up files
- > that are to large to fit onto a floppy. At the present, I am transfering
- > files via ZMODEM, and it's TAKING ME ALL DAY! The type of file I am
- > transferring is a .PR2 (Aldus) file. Knowing how to do this with a PR2
- > file is my immediate need, but it would be helpfull for me to know how to
- > do this with all types of files, as this is not the first time I have had
- > this problem.
- >
- > By the way, I'm talking about 4, 5, and 6 megabyte files, so I assume
- > compression is not an option. Thanks in advance.
-
-
- You should try ARJ. It's a packer able to split up archive files on
- multiple disks, size of your choice.
-
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