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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!news.byu.edu!ux1!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cc.utah.edu!eyring
  3. From: eyring@cc.utah.edu
  4. Subject: How to chop up an archive.tar.Z file like in the X distributions?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec15.142232.1@cc.utah.edu>
  6. Lines: 25
  7. Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
  8. Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
  9. Date: 15 Dec 92 14:22:32 MDT
  10.  
  11. How to chop up an archive.tar.Z file like in the X distributions?
  12.  
  13. This isn't an X question, sorry.
  14.  
  15. Could someone tell me what unix utility was used to chop up 
  16. the big archive.tar.Z files into the smaller but all the same
  17. size files?
  18.  
  19. To put these back together I would % cat contrib-3* | zcat | tar xvf - 
  20.  
  21. CHECKSUMS    contrib-3.06    contrib-3.15    contrib-3.24    contrib-3.33
  22. FILES.Z        contrib-3.07    contrib-3.16    contrib-3.25    contrib-3.34
  23. contrib/    contrib-3.08    contrib-3.17    contrib-3.26    contrib-3.35
  24. contrib-3.00    contrib-3.09    contrib-3.18    contrib-3.27    contrib-3.36
  25. ..
  26.  
  27. But how did they get created, split and csplit on my system only works
  28. on text and cuts binary files into all sort of sizes.
  29.  
  30. Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
  31. -- 
  32. >Bob Witmer
  33. >Eyring Corp., Flight Simulation Div.
  34. >Salt Lake City, Utah
  35. >eyring@cc.utah.edu
  36.