From: reeses@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor) Subject: Re: Help: FTPing files > maximum filesize Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 13:08:36 GMT
In article <20tuid$hqb@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>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"
Which will still dump a 500k collection of files in his directory. Won't work.
>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.
Ditto.
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