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From: iverson@bang.uucp (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: transferring large files from Unix to DOS on diskettes, How?
Keywords: uuencode uudecode split unix msdos
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.073933.5086@bang.uucp>
Date: 23 Jun 91 07:39:33 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.153929.12438@infonode.ingr.com> <2@aggie.cyanamid.COM>
Reply-To: iverson@xstor.com
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In article <2@aggie.cyanamid.COM> rich@aggie.cyanamid.com (Rich Seligson) writes:
>I transferred large files by breaking them up on the unix system, and
>then putting the together again on the DOS side.
>
>On unix:
>I uuencode'ed the file because it had binary data.  This also made

Actually, it works equally well to use 'dd' to do the split and then just
use 'copy' to put it together again - no need for uuencode/uudecode.  This
works fine for me (although dd doesn't automatically choose where to split
things like 'slice' or 'split' do).

>Rich
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