I'll resist the temptation to dive into geezer computing but Sun made
some nice stuff back in the day. It was also a lot easier to connect to
them from the Mac than Vax mainframes which required a special OS patch
to support DECNet.
Never heard of Ipackr and couldn't find it in the store. For these kinds
of things I'm usually a bit hesitant to pull an app from the web becuase
who knows what it's really doing under the hood. Something in the app
store seems safer. I did find iFileSplitter for free in the app store
but didn't try it as I'm fine with going to terminal when I need it.
CB
On 12/15/15 10:00 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote:
Hi Chris.
My first operating system experience besides MS-dos back in those dark days,
was Unix via a dos terminal connected through ethernet. First it was sun os and
later one flavor of unix or other, such as Freebsd, sco unix, linux etc. So I
know exactly what you are talking about.
However, I haven’t used anything like that for the last 5 years or so. Thats a
pity of course. As mac users, we have lots of powerful tools via the terminal
that we don’t take advantage of.
By the way, after some research that I have done, I found a great utility that
does exactly what I need and more that is voice over frienndly and free from
the mac Appstore.
The name of this application is Ipackr and as I said it has a great graphical
GUI.
Regards.
Nektarios.
On 15 Dec 2015, at 16:51, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
Back in the day there were lots of these little utilities but now that you have full
access to unix in the terminal it's not really worth a developer's time to recreate a GUI
version of a text command. I'm sure they are out there but most of the stuff I found when
googling around had step #1 as "launch terminal". I'm sure somebody could make
an app which is just an AppleScript wrapper around the split command. There are so many
powerful little tools in terminal that it's really a good thing to get familiar with
them. What makes them even more useful is that you can chain them together so the output
from one tool becomes the input to another. On top of that is the whole shell script
universe which can glue a pile of terminal commands together with user input and
scheduled launches etc.
CB
On 12/14/15 5:52 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote:
Hay Chris.
That was not what I expected as a solution but I like it. <smile>
I will certainly try that. Although, It would be a lot easier if I had a
graphical user interface to deal with this problem.
Thanks again.
Nektarios.
On 15 Dec 2015, at 00:03, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'd just compress it first and then segment it afterwards. You can compress the folder or file in the finder
without too much trouble. To break it into chunks I'd do that in terminal. Launch terminal and cd to wherever
the zip file is. If it was on your desktop you would do "cd ~/Desktop". Then you can do "split
-b50m your_filename.zip" the 50m means to split the source file into 50 megabyte chunks. Each chunk will be
named xaa xab xac etc. To put them all back together you use "cat x* > your_filename.zip" Of course
make sure you don't have any other files in the same directory that start with X or they will be added to the
reconstituted file and probably ruin it.
CB
On 12/14/15 4:15 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote:
Hi guys.
Well, the subject says it all, I think.
I need an application that will allow me to create compressed files and be able
to specify a certain file size.
For those of you who use windows something like winrar or similar.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Nektarios.
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