[ale] large file xfer challenges

[aaron]

On Sunday 13 April 2003 08:08, Fulton Green wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 04:08:51AM -0400, aaron wrote:
> > 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??  
>
> IIRC, a DOS "copy Part1 + Part2 + Part3 Bigfile" will do the trick.

Thanks. I did not know about that extension to the DOS copy command. Will try 
it when I can get to a winblows machine.
 
> > 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. ?
> 
> Actually, plain ole' ISO 9660 is fine.  Joliet (for Windows) and Rockridge
> (for legacy UNIX) extensions just provide for filenames beyond the 8.3
> singular-case (e.g., "MICROS~1.TXT").  Probably not an issue when there's
> one file per CD. ;-)

OK... thanks for the clarifications and confirmations; that's basically how I 
thought it should be working.

My need to pursue file splits and sanity checks was prompted when I burned 
these files to Data DVD on a Mac OSeX machine. The disks read back fine on 
the Mac and the M$ box would recognize the disks as Data, but the file system 
would show the disks at 0% full and fail to recognize the files. Data CD's 
burned the same way in OSeX haven't had any such problems. Anyone know what 
the secrets are surrounding Data DVD's on winblows?? 

thanks
peace
aaron


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