[ale] movin large file...

[click.dot]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

> "click.dot" wrote:
> > 
> > > "click.dot" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hey guys, i'm baffled over movin a 17mb file to a standalone computer (no
> > > > network access, no serial cable). the file is a tared and gzipped
> > > > archive, is there a way to break it down?
> > >
> > > man split
> > > man cat
> > yeah i've done it...although, i did run into another problem...i was
> > puttin the chopped files on a dos partition...we'll i reassembled them and
> > the file did'nt reassemble all 17meg. under dos.
> 
> Are you assemblying them under dos OS?  Dos will probably add some end
> of line characters you don't want.  So you're saying it produced a
> smaller file?  That doesn't make sense. ??
DOS didnt add characters, when i type 'type XAA' under DOS it prints to
the screen one line of data in the 1.3 meg file. so when i reassemble the
file it puts all them together with a line each.

thanx,
click.dot 

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