OT: Splitting LARGE files for e-mailing

[fredex]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:42:50AM -0400, David Niemi wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:36 -0400, David Niemi wrote:
> > With windows there is HJsplit and other software which will split up
> > large files into manageable files.  Agreed there is many different ways,
> > what is the common / accepted method in Linux?
> 
> answer: split
> 
> is there another method?

Once upon a time, long long ago, I wrote a csh script (don't flame me,
I didn't know any better at the time) to uuencode a large file then
chop it up into mailable pieces. I could probably scare it up if anyone
is foolish enough to want it.

Fred

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