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I am at the point where I require backup for the downloaded .dsl extensions..on an old machine I would usually split larger files and save to floppy..or save to second hd that would be accessable after reinstall...
1 - Does dsl have a splitter/joiner. if so where ,how to use
2 - if no dsl can one be added such as xjsplit.tar.gz via mydsl or how to
3 - how do I add a second master hdc on IDE2 on dsl to store for reinstall...when I installed dsl it gave an error for hdc so I removed it..can not remember the error..seen drive and size then..no something.. thought it was a controller error and that dsl only had one was easier at the time to remove..split may be better befor I play with that..thanks for any input..

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/split.1.html

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/cat.1.html

Both are part of DSL.

Ok..thanks very much...I understand there is some kind of file splitting thing built in...but the help file is well..what it is...I saved the text from the first link to a file called dslsplit to the home directory in a directory called Inbox...I opened the manager and said directory and clicked on the file dslsplit..which is 1440bytes...in the box below I type...split -b 720 /home/Inbox/dslsplit...i now see two additional files each 720 xaa and xab...I can not for the life in me join them back together and I am unsure they are even the text file I wanted ti split...and what if I wanted a large file in 5 pieces..just divide by five what about decimals..Is it too much to ask..I do not find this self explanitory should I just give it up...I'm so close.bohoho

Ok guess to much..will reinstall and redownload all the adds one more time..

Here is a better explanation. Examples sometimes say more than a one thousand word user manual:

split -b 720 /home/Inbox/dslsplit outputname.

will give you:

outputname.aa
outputname.ab

to rejoin them:

cat outputname.aa outputname.ab > newfile

or you can simplify the join with a wildcard:

cat outputname.* > newfile

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