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Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Chris wrote:
> 
>> Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in
>> chunks of say, 650 meg?
> 
> 
> If you have the space you could always tar first, then split(1).
> 

Perfect - I can work with this. Thank you.


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