From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 16:31: 7 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 C7A8A37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:31:01 -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 TAA15781; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:17:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3CC34AB7.D389E49B@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:26:47 -0400 From: Mark Filipak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken McGlothlen 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> <3CC3349F.477E899F@earthlink.net> <87it6ku27b.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 Hi All. -- top-post -- I just got back from UNIX-land. Your reply was too late, but I saw what happened and after doing this: # rm ??? I did this: # split -b 1457664 s_apache.tar.gz s_apache.tar.gz. It worked perfectly (see, newbies are adaptable). Files fit perfectly on msdos floppies. Then I switched systems (shutdown, unplug this, replug that, boot other computer) and stitched the files together and extracted into Win98SE. And, yes to that doubter, Windows Commander can't be beat. I could write a lot more but I'd be peeing into the wind here. As an old cli man I can assure you that Win is much more productive for everyday, non-computer (read: real) work. Anyone who thinks a cli system is as productive is simply kidding themselves. One small example: double-click <...name_here...>.cue (by file association, this launches EAC with the cue sheet loaded), and then click "Make CDR" (this burns a CDR with the files named in the cue sheet with CD-text -- track titles, etc.), then, work on something else while the CDR is being made -- and I didn't have to touch the keyboard. Just "click-click", then "click". **NO** cli system can be *that* efficient. Ciao all -- Mark (installing 4.5 now) Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > Mark Filipak writes: > > | > 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. > > Not at all, though it could easily be seen as so. Remember that Unix often > provides more than one way to do things (with apologies to Perl hackers), often > of equal relevance. > > First off, for what it's worth, I took the "1474560" from the dd output you > provided; that's exactly 1440 KiB. Giorgos took a more conservative approach, > and provided a 1400 KiB output (or, if you like, 1433600 bytes). Either one > will work; mine *might* save you a floppy, but that's not guaranteed. But you > could have used "-b 1440k" instead of "-b 1474560" for an equivalent result. > > As far as the "redundant" argument, you should know that this: > > split -b 1440k s_apache.tar.gz > > will result in a number of files named > > xaa > xab > xac > > and so on. That "redundant" argument defaults to "x" if you don't supply one; > by using > > split -b 1440k s_apache.tar.gz s_apache.tar.gz. > > (and note the period at the end of that last argument) you get > > s_apache.tar.gz.aa > s_apache.tar.gz.ab > s_apache.tar.gz.ac > > and so on. The results are a little more self-evident as a result. -- 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