connecting to a server

[Tony Pursell]

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 11:50 -0500, Bill Stanley wrote:
> This is getting tedious...
> 
/snip
> Is there any way to split 
> up the file, write the pieces of the file to disk, read the disks on the 
> laptop and then reconstruct the big file from its pieces.   This would 
> be very laborious and the network route is far better.
> 

There is a utility called 'split' that will split up text files and then
you can put then back together with 'cat' (just make sure you cat the
pieces together in the right order, of course).

If the file is binary you will need to text encode it first. The
'base64' utility will do that. 

I am, of course, assuming the server is Linux.

Also, I would say it is a long time since I had to do this (approx 15
years) so my recollection may be defective.  I also know that I used
'uuencode' in those days to get a text file.  You can install that with

sudo apt-get install sharutils

Tony