There are simpler ways to do this, but by far the most universal is this:

Create a single big file using tar and compress it using gzip.  Split the file into smaller pieces using..you guessed it! ...split       split -b 1400k bigfile.tar.gz       (for Linux)       or maybe:       split -10000 bigfile.tar.gz         (for Unix in general, or older split)       With the second form (splitting based on occurence of newline character in a binary file), you may need to experiment a little with the parameter (-10000) in order to get decent sizes of the offspring-files.  Put the resulting xaa, xab, xac, ... files each on a floppy and go to the other computer and copy all the pieces in a directory.  If the destination computer is a Unix computer, then do this       cat xaa xab xac xad  > bigfile.tar.gz       If you have lots of small pieces, you may consider using shell wildcards:       cat xa*  > bigfile.tar.gz       If the destination computer is a PC running Dos or Windows then, from a DOS-shell prompt do this:     copy /b xaa + xab + xac > bigfile.zip

If there were no errors when using either gzip -d, tar -x (destination Unix) or some kind of unzip (destination Windows) then you can be sure that the transfer procedure was ok.

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