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Re: [TCLUG:2896] pppd Daemon 2.2.x



On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Barnholtz, Brian wrote:

> 	Secondly,  I have files larger than 1.44mb and would like to
> transfer them from one machine to another.  Is there an application that
> splits a file or package into smaller units so I can transfer via
> floppy.  I was unsuccessful in setting up PLIP.

Check out man split, and look at the -b flag.  To re-assemble them, cat
"short for concatenate" will do the job.  These two commands should be
enough.
# split -b 1m tarfile split
# cat split* > tarfile