[ale] large file xfer challenges

[Douglas Bridges]

Why don't you use just rar them all up?

Doug

On Sunday 13 April 2003 09:56 am, aaron wrote:
> 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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