Quoth Joe S <j...@lifesoftserv.com>: > hiro: > The purpose of doing this was not to just access multiple parts of the > file. I was working off the quote below. Maybe a file server thats purpose > is to mux parts of another file sounded like fun. My thoughts are that you > could then transer thoes chunks on a single destination on seperate > connections. > > eg. > % mux -C 3 -F large.file > % tree. > ├── large.file > └── large.file.mux > ├── 1 > ├── 2 > └── 3 > > 1 directory, 4 files > > Like I said though still learning though.
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