split a .exe file

[Guest_imported]

Hi everybody !
Does anyone know if it's possible to split a .exe file in several files because it's too big to send ? Are there any software to do that on Solaris OS ?

Thanks a lot !
Goose...

 

[grega]

man split

Greg.

 

[grega]

Should have elaborated there. Say you have a 4.5Mb file called file.exe. If you issue the command;

split -b 1000k file.exe file.exe.part.

you'll end up with;

file.exe.part.aa (1024K)
file.exe.part.ab (1024K)
file.exe.part.ac (1024K)
file.exe.part.ad (1024K)
file.exe.part.ae (Whatever's left)

plus your original file.

Greg.

 

[Guest_imported]

thanks a lot for your answer...
Another questions :
how you restore the file in Solaris OS?
Is it possible in Windows OS?

 

[grega]

In Solaris (or any *nix) I would do;

cat file.exe.part.aa file.exe.part.ab file.exe.part.ab file.exe.part.ad file.exe.part.ae > file.exe

In Windows, use the copy command. If it's a binary file, use copy /b. From your DOS window, do copy /? for a full list of options.

Greg.

 

[Guest_imported]

snif, it doesn't work to recreate the file in windows when it has been cut in different parts on unix OS... I've tried with the copy /b option, with no option,... but the DOS doesn't recognize the kind of the file part and find no software to open it...

 

[jds1]

There most likely is a problem in the way you transfered the file to the Windows platform. Try ftp with binary mode to xfer the file.