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From: David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>
To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
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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?

tar/gzip + split.


>sometimes i need to transfer >1.4M files from BSDbox to BSDbox ...

An ethernet card? :)


David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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