From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 6:21:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5F537B405 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 06:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g32EKkf02545; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:20:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200204021420.g32EKkf02545@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Lance Bland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splitting mac .hqx file to fit on two disks (and reassmbling?) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:15:46 EST." <2017E746-4644-11D6-81C1-0030659A531A@vvi.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:20:46 -0500 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 lance lumbered, > On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I need to bring a 1.9m hqx file home for the kids' mac (nethack, of > > course :) > > I need to find something that lets me split it under freebsd in a way > > that the mac can reassemble it (and my mack knowledge is long out of > > date--ppc indeed :) > Upgrade your mac to Mac OS X, which is, essentially, FreeBSD based. well, uhh, yeah, but . . . :) This one is fairly early power pc. I think it has 32M to go with the single 1G drive. This one just ain't gonna see MacOS X. NetBSD, maybe, if I find a stray scsi drive, but . . . And > then use the "split" command from the Unix Terminal Window (and then cat > to cat them together on mac os x): yeah, split is easy. BUt with OS X not an option, I still need a way to cat it back together. . . . :) hmm, bzip2 recduced it to 1.26M. Now if I can find a bunzip2 mac . . hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message