Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA From: ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: More on really big files Message-ID: <17603@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 08:19:52 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17603 Posted: Fri Mar 16 08:19:52 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:45:41 EST Lines: 34 From: Mike CiaraldiSince not all this wound up on info-cpm, let me summarize: Sam Hahn (SHAHN@SUMEX-AIM) wanted to know how to break up a big file (400k) so he could fit it on a Sing-Sided Single-Densiy 8-inch disk, for transfer between CP/M systems. I suggested (CIARALDI@ROCHESTER) using PIP, with the options that let you start and stop copying with a particular string. Dave Kirschbaum (ABM.ISCAM@USC-ISID) suggested using HEXUFY, then chopping up with a standard text editor. Mark Becker (shows on my system as @MIT-MC:CENT.MBECK@MIT-OZ, I don't know the significance of the two @'s) suggested writing a program to handle this, copying until the disk was full, then resettign the drive and prompting the user to change disks. I replied to him that it might be nice to have the features of MOVE.COM in such a program, so as to be able to copy large files on a single-drive system. That's it to date. It seems to me I have heard of a program that chops up files automatically, originally used fro backing up hard siks, since they could have files that would not fit on a floppy. Is there a public domain version of this? Or a commercial one? Mike Ciaraldi ciaraldi@rochester