From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 14:52:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vbcomm.net (climax.vbcomm.net [208.178.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEBA37B41A for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:52:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Real-Return-Path: filipak@earthlink.net Received: from earthlink.net ([208.178.123.64]) by mail.vbcomm.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA14900 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:43:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3CC3349F.477E899F@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:52:31 -0400 From: Mark Filipak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy? References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net> <87u1q4rfw0.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken McGlothlen [my hero] magnanimously wrote: > > |Mark Filipak [me!] asked: > | Do you have any way for me to chop up s_apache.tar.gz into > | floppy-sized pieces that I will be able to reassemble in Win98SE? > > I do! > # split -b 1474560 s_apache.tar.gz s_apache.tar.gz. Giorgos Keramidas kindly wrote: > # split -b 1400k s_apache.tar.gz Hmmm... would that be 1,400,000 bytes or 1,433,600 bytes? -- How does FBSD do the math? No matter... (read on before jumpping on the 'reply' button) Perhaps Giorgos and Ken can fight this out between themselves and give me a consistent way to do this. Ken's suggestion seems a little redundant regarding arguments. I'm going to *split* the difference (no pun intended) and try this: # split -b 1457664 s_apache.tar.gz This (i.e., "1457664") allows room for an msdos root directory, that is, it is what is read as the actual free space after msdos formatting. I love you both -- you guys make it all worthwhile. I'll let you know how it came out off list. Thanks! -- Mark -- See my resume: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/resume/ See my music trade pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/music/ Last updated: 14 April 2002 Q: Is UNIX the spawn of Satan? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message