Re: Aug-30-99 EMC release set free

Bob Bachman wrote about splitting files into floppy-sized pieces:

> There is a freeware msdos program called "chop0595" which is real handy
> for breaking up large files to floppy sizes. Just copy the files from the
> floppys to a directory on your linux system and use 'cat' to rejoin them.
>
> I see Tim now has made the smaller files available. The chop program is
> still a handy utility to have as it works for both msdos and linux.
> I downloaded chop from a Linux site somewhere. I'll see if I can
> find a site where it's available.

I do this on Linux using the "split" command, e.g.,

split -b 1400k emc-30-Aug-1999.tgz emc-30-Aug-1999.a

where
-b 1400k means split into 1400k chunks, just under a floppy size;
emc-30-Aug-1999.tgz is the original large file;
emc-30-Aug-1999.a is the base name of the destination file series.

split adds suffixes of aa,ab,...,zz automatically, so by specifying .a
at the end of the destination file, it makes suffixes .aaa, .aab, .aac.,
... I did this so the files would have a .3 suffix style.

To piece them together, use "cat", e.g.,

cat emc-30-Aug-1999.aaa emc-30-Aug-1999.aab emc-30-Aug-1999.aac
emc-30-Aug-1999.aad > emc-30-Aug-1999.tgz

--Fred