I deleted, by mistake, the original message so I have to forward a response to it.
It seems to be easier for me.
I assume you want to e-mail your large files. If this is the case you can create
an account with Yahoo and/or Lycos and try from there.
If your ISP is AOL run away, asap.
To reduce the size of a file that is to losslessly compress it, on linux:
gzip -f <file name>
what you get is <file name>.gz
the size of the compressed file depends on many factors one of which is the kind
of file; I never compressed video files.
bzip2 -z <file name>
is another way to compress files; it achieves better compression rates that is, the
compressed files are smaller, up to 30 per cent smaller, if you are lucky
what you get is <file name>.bz2
To decompress:
gzip -d <file name>.gz
or
bunzip2 ........ <file nome>.bz2 I do not remember the option, I think it is x, I am
writing from the microsoft trash and I cannot look it up, look up the man page
for bzip2.
If gzip and bzip2 do not help, split the files. I know there are ways to split on the
windows trash, I have not been able to find anything that would work on Linux.
If you search the Internet (use altavista, not google because google spys on you)
for "file splitting" you will find many share- and freeware file-splitters for the
windows-trash.
If you think nothing works for you so far, sit down and write a file-splitter
for Linux yourself <smile>
Merry Christmas!!
--- On Sat, 12/12/09, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
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