Breaking up a HUGE file safely

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From: Jay Chu
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:52

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Help!

I have a 3 meg binary file that's too large for copying to any floppy disks.

Is there a safe method for breaking this HUGE file up into smaller files
like 1.2 meg each?  Then, using a combining method, I can combine the smaller
files into the original file again?
-- 
        ______                shadow@r-node.gts.org
       | |__| |   If it's there and you can see it       - it's real
       |  ()  |   If it's there and you can't see it     - it's transparent
       |______|   If it's not there and you can't see it - you erased it!

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Message-ID: <1992Nov11.225217.7888@r-node.gts.org>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!geac!r-node!shadow

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.lang.pascal,alt.hacker,alt.binaries.sound.misc
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!geac!r-node!shadow
From: shadow@r-node.gts.org (Jay Chu)
Subject: Breaking up a HUGE file safely
Message-ID: <1992Nov11.225217.7888@r-node.gts.org>
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:52:17 GMT
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