On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:25:54PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> > The split sets were always created using "split -b 240640 $name.tgz $name.
> > (where $name is one of base, comp, man, etc)
>
> Err, that is
> 		split -b 240640 $name.tgz $name.
>
> (the '.' at the end should be there)

The size "240640" was chosen so that exactly five would fit on a 1.2mb
floppy, and exactly six would fit on a 1.44mb floppy. You could make
the floppies with less collataral brain damage by choosing a size
that's closer to one per floppy, like "1443840", or slightly less.


Frederick