Angus,
You could try to use the unbix SPLIT command to chop up the tar file into managable size pieces then use JOIN (I think...maybe CAT will work too) to put them back together.
Good Luck.
-Eric Lambert
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Illinois Natural History Survey
607 E. Peabody Drive
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E-mail:lambert@gis.uiuc.edu
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<> I have to pass a whole grass LOCATION over the net. Even
<> compressed, the tar file is huge. How could I cut it
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<> get a "broken pipe" on the ftp at some point.
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<> Agus
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