[ale] movin large file...

[jbayes at bronze37.mminternet.com (Joe Bayes)]

click.dot typeth:

>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?

Go get a bunch of floppies, then:

mkdir foo
mv file.tar.gz foo
cd foo
bsplit -b 1300k file.tar.gz

Use the floppies to move the resulting files to an empty directory on
the standalone machine. 

Then, from the empty directory on the standalone machine, use 

cat * >file.tar.gz

to put them back together. 

--joe