Re: Splitting a file...

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

David Andrew Ross (snakey@Glue.umd.edu) wrote:
:      What's the best way (within GS/OS) to split a file in to two files
: of about equal size?  Also, is there a freely availabile _GS/OS based_
: program which will do Zmodem or even just Ymodem or Ymodem-G?  

: I've been trying to transfer a 30 meg file from my GS over to a PC over
: a serial link.  Xmodem is just too slow.  =)  I could transfer it with
: Proterm if I could fit it on a Prodos partition, but unfortunately the
: file size limit for Prodos seems to be 16 megs.

Have you tried to uuencode it on the gs, split it in several text
files, transfer them, append them on the pc and uudecode the
resulting file?

Just an idea from me ... 8-)

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