Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!skank From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Upload of WenWeMakLuv on...ucsd.edu Keywords: 7.5MB of Berlin's WWML 8SVX RAW Message-ID: <1990Dec31.055724.8401@news.iastate.edu> Date: 31 Dec 90 05:57:24 GMT References: <4438@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1990Dec27.233135.2945@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Dec30.162454.22064@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Lines: 34 In article <1990Dec30.162454.22064@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >test@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu writes: > >> OK... I had the room to DL the file, AND uncompress it. Now I have to >> move it from a PC to my Amy. What backup formats are out there, so I >> can put this puppy on 12 (good grief!) diskettes on a PClone at work, >> and then reconstruct the original file (I'm using MSH) at home?!! ANY >> help on this would be appreciated! > >Good grief right back at you. WRITE a C program that take two byte >counts and two file names, opens the first file for read and the second >file for write, does a "junk=fgetc(file1)" for the first count, an >"fputc(file2,(fgetc(file1)))" for the second byte count, and then closes >both files. Take you probably 15 lines of C code. Run it twelve times >with file2 on a clean floppy each time and the count bumped by however >many bytes you can jam on the floppy. I had a similar problem, if you're using Unix just use the 'split' command to split the file that way. I was going to write a program, but hey, this is Unix, there's already a command for it! :) >Put it back together on the Amiga with "type > file3 df2:file2.01", >"type >> file3 df2:file2.02" etc. (or use join (bleah!)). > >Or whatever the syntax of those calls is; I don't do code any more >since my brain shut down. > >Kent, the man from xanth. > --George