transferring large files from Unix to DOS on diskettes, How?

[Tim Iverson]

In article <2 at aggie.cyanamid.COM> rich at aggie.cyanamid.com (Rich Seligson) writes:
>I transferred large files by breaking them up on the unix system, and
>then putting the together again on the DOS side.
>
>On unix:
>I uuencode'ed the file because it had binary data.  This also made

Actually, it works equally well to use 'dd' to do the split and then just
use 'copy' to put it together again - no need for uuencode/uudecode.  This
works fine for me (although dd doesn't automatically choose where to split
things like 'slice' or 'split' do).

>Rich
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