On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:36:43 +0800 (PHT), Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a filecoimpressor that can also split the resulting > compressed file into smaller blocks? I have a huge binary compressedfile > that is over 850MB in size, which keep sme from writing it to a standard > CD-RW. I hope to be able to "split" it and write it to 2 CDs.
Just make a huge tar (with or without compression) then just use split. man split for details. Or if you want, you can also use dd, but you'll have to define starting and ending blocks. Tar has the splitting option that you refer to, not gzip and bzip2. However, I believe Tar's "splitting" is only useful for block devices (like floppies or tapes), not on regular files. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
