Splitting up sets of files for archiving (e.g. to tape, optical media)

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Fri Jan 19 08:20:53 UTC 2018


On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:06:58 -0800
"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> I have written a small software tool to do the above "splitting" job,
> and I am currently improving upon it, but it occured to me that I
> should at least ask if someone else has perhaps already perfected this
> exact wheel that I am busy re-inventing.

	I have re-invented that wheel a couple of times (in very different
contexts but with the same simple algorithm), but I've never seen a packaged
tool for the job. Perhaps you should release yours, mine were never more
than just enough for the job in hand.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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