🚀 go-pugleaf

* Jurij <jurij@device-image.de> [2005-02-16]:
> Thomas Wana <thomas_hatesspam@wana.at>:
>> Impressive. But wait! Do I have that
>> already installed on my system?
>> dd bzip2 gzip split
>
> Of course you have plenty possibilities using linux/UNIX to reach
> the same or nearly the same result as with zsplit/unzsplit, but:
> 1. I have problems to split files bigger thAn 2 GigabyteS with split
> 2. also gzip and bzip2 were not helpful with files bigger thAn 4 GigabyteS.

i wish i had your problems.. ;-)

> with zsplit/unzsplit on the same machine, same kernel I can effectively
> treat files/devices as big as 200 Gigabyte and for sure even bigger.

i even wish i could actually *test* this.  but my
machine only has a 10G disk since its last upgrade.

> 3. with different tools combined in scripts you cannot have a good
>    control about progress in zipping and splitting files in chunks.

you can't?  why?  i'd "watch" the resulting tempfile.

> 4. to use one tool which combines features of different tools
>    is easier to use in scripts the combination of tools.

so - are you saying the your tool covers all possible combinations
of those other tools?  can you actually *prove* this?

anyway, i doubt this topic has anything to do with austria or vienna
in particular, so i'm deleting those from the Followup-To:.  i hope
someone can direct this to an even more appropriate newsgroup..

Sven