Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: fritsche@laax.cscs.ch (Josef Fritscher)
Reply-To: fritsche@cscs.ch
Subject: Re: how to break huge mpich file (tar/gzip) into frags??
Organization: Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 11:32:40 GMT
Message-ID: <3vnnoo$nb8@pobox.cscs.ch>

In article <DCAAMM.HM7@ecf.toronto.edu>, gopal@ecf.toronto.edu (GOPAL  Ganapathiraju Sree Ramana) writes:
> hi,
> i am trying to down load  a huge mpi-implementation for
> installation on my Linux baby. can some one tell me how
> i can break the (if it is possible) tar/gzip file into 
> 1.4 mb size fragments, for transfer through floppies
> and reconstruction at home.

What you can try (by using gtar), is to use multivolume mode -M option.

- Joe
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