Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:20:46 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Lance Bland <lbland@vvi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splitting mac .hqx file to fit on two disks (and reassmbling?) Message-ID: <200204021420.g32EKkf02545@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:15:46 EST." <2017E746-4644-11D6-81C1-0030659A531A@vvi.com>
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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
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