Re: Split files

> > > Making any sense? > > > > Year, so I have to do it manually (thought someone could preveting me from > > reinvent the wheel... ;-) > > > > > What are you really trying to achieve? > > > > I'm trying to split a large binary file (>2 GB) into peaces of 700 MB to > > burn it on a cd. It's a part of a backup-mechanism I'm wirting in PHP. > > Maybe you could find a program that will do the split for you then call that > from within PHP. =Hmm, I'm still come at it from the other way around (all due respect to Jason) - but then I don't recall OpSys details, or know if there is a utility/tool for the job in your choice of OpSys. =What it reminds me of, is what we used to do when archiving files/file sets larger than 1.44MB - zipping them onto more than one diskette. =Try using PHP to read the original file, and copy it out into a set of ~700MB copy/sub-files. Burn each of these onto CDs. Get PHP to output a handy 'key' - report listing what came from where and how to reassemble it all again (in six months' time when all is forgotten). open original file $FileCtr=0; while not eof { create output sub-file nr $FileCtr $MegCtr=1; while $MegCtr<700 and not eof { read megabyte write to sub-file $MegCtr++; } //end write loop close sub-file $FileCtr++; } //end read close original file echo "Copied original into $FileCtr sub-files"; =Regards, =dn