[ale] large file xfer challenges

[Douglas Bridges]

Rar is also very good about splitting files up, even if you don't use it for 
compression.  You also can use the parchive utility to make parity checksums 
if you need them. 

Doug

On Sunday 13 April 2003 10:44 am, aaron wrote:
> On Sunday 13 April 2003 10:53, Douglas Bridges wrote:
> > Why don't you use just rar them all up?
> >
> > Doug
>
> The files in question are already highly compressed pixeo media, aka Quick
> Time and AVI. The 15 to 20% that Gzip, zip, et all can further compress
> them still isn't enough to squeeze them onto a single CD.
>
> Again, this wouldn't even be an issue if I could figure out the tricks to
> making Data DVD's that winblows can read.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> > On Sunday 13 April 2003 09:56 am, aaron wrote:
> > > On Sunday 13 April 2003 08:08, Fulton Green wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 04:08:51AM -0400, aaron wrote:
> > > > > If the receiving end was a *nix box I would just "cat prt1 prt2
> > > > >
> > > > > >bigfile" to  stitch the pieces back together. Can anyone tell me
> > > > > > if
> > > > >
> > > > > there is a "cat"  equivalent in winblows or Me$sy dos for this??
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, a DOS "copy Part1 + Part2 + Part3 Bigfile" will do the trick.
> > >
> > > Thanks. I did not know about that extension to the DOS copy command.
> > > Will try it when I can get to a winblows machine.
> > >
> > > > > Also, when I burn the CD's, I can't remember whether I need the
> > > > > Joliet or Rockridge extensions (or both) to have the CD files read
> > > > > on a winblows 2000 or eXcrement Pile system. ?
> > > >
> > > > Actually, plain ole' ISO 9660 is fine.  Joliet (for Windows) and
> > > > Rockridge (for legacy UNIX) extensions just provide for filenames
> > > > beyond the 8.3 singular-case (e.g., "MICROS~1.TXT").  Probably not an
> > > > issue
>
> when
>
> > > > there's one file per CD. ;-)
> > >
> > > OK... thanks for the clarifications and confirmations; that's basically
>
> how
>
> > > I thought it should be working.
> > >
> > > My need to pursue file splits and sanity checks was prompted when I
> > > burned these files to Data DVD on a Mac OSeX machine. The disks read
> > > back fine on the Mac and the M$ box would recognize the disks as Data,
> > > but the file system would show the disks at 0% full and fail to
> > > recognize the files. Data CD's burned the same way in OSeX haven't had
> > > any such problems.
>
> Anyone
>
> > > know what the secrets are surrounding Data DVD's on winblows??
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > peace
> > > aaron
>
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