[plug] Does anyone know of a utility to break up large files into smaller chunks?

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, David Buddrige wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knew of a utility that will take a given
> (large) file - such as a tar file or similar, and break it up into
> equally sized chunks

use the standard unix utility split(1)

> - and of course, append it back together again?

cat section1 section2 section3 section4 > joined

> Also: Is there a PLUG Meeting on tonight?

No, it was last night at UCC.
Next meeting is on Tuesday the 9th of March

 - Matt