Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!daemon From: stahl@zippy.fnal.gov (Steve Stahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Splitting up large binary files. Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 16:16:49 GMT Sender: daemon@linac.fnal.gov (The Background Man) Organization: Fermilab, Batavia, IL Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: zippy.fnal.gov A friend of mine has been trying to get Emacs running on his 1040ST. He collected emacs-18.55.zoo (sic) from atari.archive. This file is too big to fit on a single DD floppy. Soooo, I advised him to try "split"ting it on one of the Unix boxes at work, and then transferring it to floppies via a Mac--using Apple File Exchange, and formatting the disks on the Mac--and then recombining the individual parts back on his Atari using "cat." With a "cat" collected from cs.uni-sb, he was able to do this. Byte count checked out ok. But "zoo" bombed immediately when it tried to work on the result, reporting a corrupted header. He assures me he used the proper modes of transfer along the way. Can someone tell us what went wrong, or better, how we should have gone about this in the first place ? Finally, when this is all done will it have been worth the effort ? -- Steve Stahl | Fermilab, Batavia, IL | stahl@calvin.fnal.gov