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From: jpm@logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: WANTED: uuencode file splitter for large files
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.061919.13423@logixwi.uucp>
Date: 6 Jun 91 06:19:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.185116.27751@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Organization: Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden, W-Germany
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moore@forty2.enet.dec.com (Paul Moore) writes:

>I'm in the situation where I have to port large binary files to my system at 
>home by physically carrying the stuff home on floppy disk via MSDOS. Since 
>these files are often quite large (5-8 Mbyte), I run uuencode on the binary 
>file and then cut the resulting text file into chunks that will fit onto a 
>floppy disk.

>Does anyone have a program that will do this function, so that I could, for
>example, enter:

>     uuencode binary_filename | <program> text_filename

>and program will create as many text files with the root name of text_filename
>as are required? I thought I'd ask first before writing such a program myself!

	How about:
	  $ uuencode binary_file | split
	this will create as many files as necessary. These are called
	`x??'.

	At home, you get them together again with:
	  $ cat x?? | uudecode

>Thanks,
	Pleasure.

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Jan-Piet Mens, Logix GmbH				    jpm@logixwi.UUCP
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