Re: tlug: Compressing files on Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Gavin Walker wrote:

> I don't have an Internet connection at home, only at work. I've
> downloaded a 2Mb RPM file, and want to compress/split it and take it
> home on a couple of floppies. Is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> Regards,
> 

of course:

tar -Mvf /dev/fd0 file.rpm

you can't make compressed multipart TAR archives, though, but this will do
a multipart floppy archive of file.rpm.  I do this all the time.  When you
uncompress it, just tar -xvf /dev/fd0 on the target machine with the first
floppy in the drive.

> 
> Gavin Walker
> N2K Japan
> Yokohama
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