On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I have a VMWare virtual machine image of ~3.5GB, that I need to tar (and > hopefully gzip) into multiple (relatively) smaller archives that I can > backup onto CD-R. Not quite if this meets your requirements, but how about using split? 'man split' indicates that you can split by bytes, lines etc. would (gzip|bzip)ing your file and then splitting the resulting file work? -Mark