From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: Help: FTPing files > maximum filesize Date: 1 Jul 1993 08:00:45 +0200
In comp.os.linux, article <C9DEK3.5v@fab4box.wa.com>,
reeses@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor) writes:
> In article <1993Jun26.214856.17419@dcc.uchile.cl> tbenavid@huemul.dcc.uchile.cl (Thomas Benavides A) writes:
> >Malcolm Ryan (2119737@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au) wrote:
> >>In trying to ftp the files from disk a3, I discovered that the University
> >>computer imposes a 300k maximum filesize. One of the files I need to ftp
> >>is 500k (compressed). I cannot find a way to download this file, can
> >>anyone help me?
> >
> >uuencode and use split ...
> >% man split
> > split - split a file into pieces
> > ...
>
> Read his post again. He can't even get the 500k _onto_ his machine, let alone
> uuencoding it and splitting it.
You can pipe the file directly through uuencode and split:
ftp> get bigfile "|split -b250k - a3"
See "man split". You need uuencode only if your split doesn't know about the
-b option (use something like "|uuencode a3|split -1000 a3" in this case, or
get somebody to install a better split program).
Alternately, ask the University people to up the file site limit. 300k is
ridiculously low, IMHO.
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