-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Mahmood wrote: | * Dennis Tuchler (dtuchler@earthlink.net) [030430 11:09]: | |>I understand there is an application that will break up large tarballs |>into small pieces for transfer to diskette, and then rejoin them into a |>single, unpackable tarball. Where can I find such an application? | | | split(1). You can also do a multi-volume tar archive directly if | that's easier by using '-M' with '-c'. | Just a hint, don't split gzipped tars ontpo CD's unless you make multiple copies. i've lost my 3 gigs of oggs & mp3's due to 2 bad CD containing parts of a split .tgz if'n i'd just split a .tar, i could have recovered most of whayt I had backed up. - -- SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686 ~ 11:26am up 6 days, 3:06, 6 users, load average: 0.43, 0.43, 0.44 Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach nqs@cognisurf.com | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html GPG key can be found at: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ | Geek Code: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/geek_code.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+sBcdojW9aOH101IRAh3SAJ9Nu3erw6jVF6SJ78NKIirAsCuagACgu8Ww gkTPi5EDxo7FPzAeVWqjtnA= =FIw7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----