[ale] movin large file...

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thanx, this really worked !
also thanx to everyone else...

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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Joe Bayes wrote:

> 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