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From: wohler@sri-spam.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Compressed and split gcc's are on prep and ingres.berkeley.edu
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 18:22:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 18:22:01 1987
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In article <8703230652.AA03678@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> gnu@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (John Gilmore) writes:
>I have compressed /u2/emacs/gcc.tar to create gcc.tar.Z.  I also split
>that down into 100K chunks, named gcc.tar.Z.1 through gcc.tar.Z.11.

john,

  i'm surprised you would commit two errors here.  first, you *should*
  have placed the split files in a directory called "gcc.tar.Z-split"
  to minimize the number of files in the already too fat emacs
  directory, and secondly, you should have used split(1) to create
  names of the form gcc.tar.Z.aa, gcc.tar.Z.ab, ..., gcc.tar.Z.ba and
  so on.  with your numbering scheme, i couldn't just say
  
	cat gcc.tar.Z.* > gcc.tar.Z

  to put the file back together--i had to enumerate all of the
  extensions.

  the split on prep has a -c option so that you can specify the byte
  count of each file. 

  i cc'd comp.emacs on this so that others would not learn from this
  bad example.  sorry john.

		      					--bw