Re: Help needed with compressed files

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

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> The unzip package doesn't do disk spanning.
> 
> OTOH, if you can find a way of splitting the .deb into pieces, you can then
> easily put it back together again with "cat part1 part2 > xyzzy.deb". (That
> is, the first part contains bytes 1-1000000, second 1000001-2000000 etc.)

The command for splitting files in unix is .... split!  To split a file
into high density floppies, use

$ split -b 1423k file part.

This will take file `file', and generate parts named `part.aa',
`part.ab'. etc.

See man split.

(by the way, this seems a candidate for a FAQ or tip)

HTH,
Eric

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