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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: splitting a big file with _no_ newlines in it
Keywords: no new lines
Message-ID: <1990Jul03.020026.15550@virtech.uucp>
Date: 3 Jul 90 02:00:26 GMT
References: <62@ai.etl.army.mil>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <62@ai.etl.army.mil> anneb@ai.etl.army.mil (Anne Brink) writes:
>We have a user here who is trying to download some very large data files.
>(33.4 MB and up).  He's trying to download them via a PC using kermit, which
>means splitting them into manageable pieces.  The hangup is that split will not
>split the files into more than 1 piece.  I suspect that this is because the
>files have 0 lines! (Or so claims wc -l)  They're just streams of raw ascii
>data, consisting of hundreds of little records. 

Since you are going to be downloading the files anyway, I would suggest the
following:

	compress < file | btoa | split


Which can be reversed on the receiving machine.
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