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From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Splitting file for 1.44 Floppies
Date: 1 Jun 1997 17:50:22 -0700
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harold@spectra.net (Harold J. Fennell) writes:

>I need help splitting several large files onto multiple 1.44 MB floppies.  Any 
>help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Assuming it's a binary file, and its name is "file", do this:

$ uuencode file file > file.uu
$ split -l 23000 file.uu file.uu.

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Tony Porczyk    *   tporczyk@infobound.com   *   San Jose, California
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PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP-- t+@ 5++ X-- R* b- D---- e* V-- h* r+++(*)+++(*)>?
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