disc burning spanning multiple discs?

[cwoody222]

I have a 2.4GB file that I need to burn on a CD-R for a Windows-user friend. But the CD's only hold like 800MB or something. How do I span my file across multiple discs? It's an MPG if that matters.

I have Toast 5 if that helps.

I could also zip it or make a stuffit file if needed because the Windows user will be able to unzip it just fine.

Any ideas/help on the best way to accomplish this?

 

[DeltaMac]

Toast 6 will span across multiple disks, don't know about Toast 5.
You could try zipping the file, but an mpg is already a compressed format, and zipping may not give much advantage for size, but YMMV.

 

[michaelsanford]

I was *sure* tar allowed you to break large files into smaller blocks, but I can't seem to find the command-line flag for that

Hmm, try tar with the following command-line flags "--multi-volume" and/or "--tape-length=N": multi-volume and 'start a new tape after Nk'.

I don't know about the first one, but if you're compressing to files you could probably try --tape-length=819200 (or whatever the effective byte-size of a CD is...I can never figure the difference between real megs and marketing megs).

I don't have any files over 800 megs that I can tar to test it myself

 

[heathpitts]

how do you get toast 6 to span disks? I have never been able to do that.

 

[cwoody222]

For future readers, I was able to use MacHacha http://homepage.mac.com/julifos/soft/machacha/pro/index.html to split the files into any size I wanted. Did it easily and quickly.

Then my Windows friend is going to use HJSplit http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/ to join the files up.

MacHacha gives you the option of what type of file to split it into and HJSplit is one of the choices.

Thanks for everyone's help here!