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From: roberto@frmug.org (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Spliting Distribution files
Date: 17 Feb 1997 18:25:05 GMT
Organization: Usenet Canal Historique
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References: <33087FAF.68A5@ed.atl.sita.int>
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In article <33087FAF.68A5@ed.atl.sita.int>,
Vijay Konkimalla <vijay.konkimalla@ed.atl.sita.int> wrote:
> Could someone point out how to split the tgz or other distribution files
> to fit on floppy disks. (I need this to load X and other packages onto
> my FreeBSD).
Please read the man page of split.
split -b 1400k file_to_split prefix_to_use.
will generate prefix_to_use.aa, .ab and so on.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@frmug.org
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