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> Hi, we have a 800 MB compressed file that we want to put on 2 cd's.  Are
> there compression options (assuming it's still greater than 650MB) that will
> allow us to create two or more files?  (and then allow us to recombine them
> on a different machine?)

> > Hi, we have a 800 MB compressed file that we want to put on 2 cd's.  Are
> > there compression options (assuming it's still greater than 650MB) that
will
> > allow us to create two or more files?  (and then allow us to recombine
them
> > on a different machine?)

> Use the split command to get it into a number of smaller files and
> cat to put it back together.  Split uses the prefix "x" by default.
> So it could be good to specify a prefix.  Be sure to use the `sum`
> command to verify that the copy made it back to the exact same as
> the origional.

> Your proceedures would be along the lines of:

> $ split -b 645m filename.tar.Z filename # the second filename is a
>                                         # split file prefix
> $ ls filename*
> filename.tar.Z
> filenameaa
> filenameab
> $ sum filename.tar.Z
> 07823   339 filename.tar.Z

> # Copy the filenameaa and filenameab onto the 2 CDs.  Then copy
> # them onto the new system.

> # On new system
> $ cat filenameaa filenameab > filename.tar.Z
> $ sum filename.tar.Z
> 07823   339 filename.tar.Z

>  - Matt
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>> cat Big-file* | uncompress > Big-File