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Re: [Q]: Split, move and restore files crossplatform



> > I wonder how to split files bigger than diskette's capacity in order to be
> > moved and restored on a different PLATFORM .
> 
> [... surprise! surprise!! I know how to snip irrelevant stuff! ...]

Just perfect!

> 
> > But what if I need to move a big file from Unix/Linux -> DOS/WIN and vice
> > versa? There is no zip by volumes on Unixes and zipsplit doesn't handle
> > big files.
> 
> MKS Toolkit (neither freeware nor shareware) implements several commands,
> familiar from Unix, under MS-DOS environment.  So you can use split also 
> under MS-DOS environment.

Thanks Omer! Any pointer if you have it handy? As I remember it was some
Unix emulator with few unix commands available, right?
I saw it first time about 3 years ago... in some book teaching UNIX...

But it's not that simple, I'm not sure whether it knows to hadle unix's
'\n' vs DOS '\n' so you need dos2unix as well...

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