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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:31:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote:

> is there a simple method to span floppies (like pkzip &)
> when cp-ing and/or tarballing?
> 
> sometimes i need to transfer >1.4M files from BSDbox to BSDbox ...

Use split(1).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major