On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> What utilities are out there that can write a single tgz file that is
> bigger than a floppy to multiple floppies ?
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> man split
I agree with Thomas Charron completely, but in the interests of promoting
the Perl Way(TM) [1], there are some other tools available:
GNU tar(1) supports multi-volume archives with the '-M' switch. The only
drawback is the format isn't "standard"; only GNU tar(1) can unpack a
multi-volume GNU tar archive. If you work exclusively with Linux systems,
this won't be a problem. If you work with other systems, well, you should be
using the GNU tools anyway. ;-)
The program zipsplit(1), part of the Info-Zip package, can be used to
construct a series of PKZip archives from one big one, each of which
conveniently fit on a single media. It cannot handle single files bigger then
the media, but if you simply have a lot of smaller files, it can be very
handy.
There are many other methods, but these (plus split(1), of course) I find
most useful. YMMV. HTH.
Footnotes
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[1] The Perl Way(TM) being, of course, TIMTOWTDI [2]
[2] There Is More Then One Way To Do It
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