Mac, Are you sure this list isn't a little too Blue for you? j/k Welcome to the geek list down south. Hey folks, Mac Newbold is a fellow UofU cs grad student... he's one of the movers and shakers here in the School of Computing.
-matt On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Mac Newbold wrote: > Today at 8:15am, Hans Fugal said: > > >The details are of course quite more involved, but that's the gist. If > >anyone knows of something that does this already, please tell me. I > >pondered using split for splitting the files, but it occurs to me I > >perhaps would like to have one file fill the remaining space on one cd, > >say 200M, span another cd, 650M, and end on the third cd, say 50M. split > >can't do that, so I'll probably end up using dd. > > split may not do a many-way split in one run, but it can do it when called > multiple times. Just when the next file is too big for the remaining > space, split it into two parts, one of which fits the remaining space. > Then for the next CD if the remaining file is too big, split it into two > parts, one of which fits the remaining space. Repeat as many times as > needed, and eventually you'll have a remainder that fits on one CD. > > Mac > > -- > Mac Newbold MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macnewbold.com/ > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
