[ale] large file xfer challenges

[James P. Kinney III]

Aaron,

zip will support splitting stuff as well and windbloze can handle that
OK. In fact, WinZip can handle tarballs OK.

Use Joliet so the that poor, crippled trash from Redmond can read all
the little bits on the CD's.

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 04:08, aaron wrote:
> I need to xfer a couple large binary files - ~1.1gig - to multiple CD Roms so 
> I can deliver them to an M$ winblows machine.
> 
> "split" will let me chop the files into a couple pieces that will fit on a CD. 
> If the receiving end was a *nix box I would just "cat prt1 prt2 >bigfile" to 
> stitch the pieces back together. Can anyone tell me if there is a "cat" 
> equivalent in winblows or Me$sy dos for this??  
> 
> Also, when I burn the CD's, I can't remember whether I need the Joliet or 
> Rockridge extensions (or both) to have the CD files read on a winblows 2000 
> or eXcrement Pile system. ?
> 
> help appreciated!
> peace
> aaron
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