Debian includes a utility called floppybackup, it does exactly what you
are talking about the easy way.  

Recreating the tar with -M may also be the way to go.

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 09:39, Craig White wrote:
> Have a tarball (webmin.tgz) that I need to take with me on several
> floppy disks - the tarball is about 5M in size.
> 
> How can I get it to split into 1.3 mb pieces?  Must I 'un-tar' it first?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Craig
> 
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