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How can I split a 900Mb file over 2 CD's?
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And be able to have them read on a PC?
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Doesn't Stuffit have a Windows version?
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Originally posted by lucylawless:
Doesn't Stuffit have a Windows version?
Yes, but hardly any Windows user has it. If this is for someone else, zipping is better, since that is the standard compressioin for PCs.
Is this 900MB file already compressed? If not, try zipping it. It may compress down to fit on a single CD depending on the type of file. You can get DropStuff in Stuffit Lite 7, which is free.
I assume Stuffit Deluxe can segment files, if you have it. If you have Classic or use Mac OS 9, you can get the old Stuffit Lite 3.6 which does segment files for free. You can then zip them with DropZip.
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Thanks, I think I can use zipit under classic...
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use rar to split them up, then winrar to put them back together on the pc.
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You can also try ZipIt
You can set the segment size in the Zip menu.
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Readable on Windows, eh? Well, I don't know if this will work for you, but it works for me on OSX only. Stick the file in to a tar and gz it (use commands tar -c -f archive_name.tar file_name then gzip archive_name.tar , there's probably a way to pipe these two together, but I don't know it). Then you use the split command (e.g. split -b 600m archive_name.tar.gz archive_name.tar.gz_Part_ this command will split the file in to 600 MB chunks with names that start with archive_name.tar.gz_Part_ [i.e. archive_name.tar.gz_Part_aa, archive_name.tar.gz_Part_ab, archive_name.tar.gz_Part_ac ...]). To reassemble the archive, use the cat command (i.e. cat Part_aa Part_ab Part_ac > Archive_Name.tar.gz with add part_ab to the end of part_aa, and add part_ac to the end of that, and put the result in Archive_Name.tar.gz).
That is, assuming that Windows has something like cat and can handle .tar.gz files.
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Originally posted by BlackGriffen: That is, assuming that Windows has something like cat and can handle .tar.gz files.[/B]
the windows cli is very different from that of linux/unix, and I doubt it can handle with success the commands (relative to windows, of course) needed to reassemble the files.
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