transferring large files from Unix to DOS on diskettes, How?
Tim Iverson
iverson at bang.uucp
Sun Jun 23 17:39:33 AEST 1991
In article <2 at aggie.cyanamid.COM> rich at aggie.cyanamid.com (Rich Seligson) writes:
>I transferred large files by breaking them up on the unix system, and
>then putting the together again on the DOS side.
>
>On unix:
>I uuencode'ed the file because it had binary data. This also made
Actually, it works equally well to use 'dd' to do the split and then just
use 'copy' to put it together again - no need for uuencode/uudecode. This
works fine for me (although dd doesn't automatically choose where to split
things like 'slice' or 'split' do).
>Rich
> /_______/ American Cyanamid Company rich at aggie.cyanamid.COM - Smart mailers
- Tim Iverson
iverson at xstor.com -/- uunet!xstor!iverson
More information about the Comp.unix.msdos
mailing list