On Thursday 24 January 2002 20:46, DL Neil wrote:
> > > > Making any sense?
> > >
> > > Year, so I have to do it manually (thought someone could preveting me
> > > from reinvent the wheel... ;-)
> > >
> > > > What are you really trying to achieve?
> > >
> > > I'm trying to split a large binary file (>2 GB) into peaces of 700 MB
> > > to burn it on a cd. It's a part of a backup-mechanism I'm wirting in
> > > PHP.
> >
> > Maybe you could find a program that will do the split for you then call
> > that from within PHP.
>
> =Hmm, I'm still come at it from the other way around (all due respect to
> Jason) - but then I don't recall OpSys details, or know if there is a
> utility/tool for the job in your choice of OpSys.
Well unless it's a *really* obscure OS I'm sure there must be some readily
available file splitter utility. No point doing more work than necessary by
writing your own file splitting routine :)
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