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- > uuencode the file. the uuencoded file is just a text file which you can
- > easily split in pieces. If necessary compress each piece with pkzip or
- > whatever. put each piece on a disk. go home. load each disk, [unzip], append
- > and uudecode. Messy but it works.
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- Except that most distributions of Doom use a PC install program (INSTALL.BAT
- which calls DEICE.EXE) which you cannot extract on an Atari/Mac (or Sun :).
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- > BTW. as far as I know, there is no
- > compression program that lets me use multiple disks on my sun...
-
- what about 'split'/'cat'? I know that it deals in 'lines' which implies that
- it only works on text files, but it works fine for me (although the files
- are not all the same size).
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- Anthony
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