On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I need to send a big exe windows file, but the size is getting to be a > problem. So I need to slice it and send the pieces separate. What is the > best method? > Use dd: dd if=source of=dest.01 bs=1M count=1 skip=0 dd if=source of=dest.02 bs=1M count=1 skip=1 dd if=source of=dest.03 bs=1M count=1 skip=2 dd if=source of=dest.04 bs=1M count=1 skip=3 ...
this will split the files up in pieces of 1 Meg. For putting them together: cat dest.01 dest.02 dest.03 ... > dest.exe If it needs to be done under windoze, open a command prompt and do something like: COPY /B dest.01+dest.02+dest.03 dest.exe Greetz, Sebastiaan
