quick tar help

Kevin Buettner plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 7 May 2002 10:09:15 -0700


On May 7,  9:39am, Craig White wrote:

> Have a tarball (webmin.tgz) that I need to take with me on several
> floppy disks - the tarball is about 5M in size.
> 
> How can I get it to split into 1.3 mb pieces?  Must I 'un-tar' it first?

No.  Use the ``split'' command.

Kevin