On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:44:15 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:15:34 -0500, the renowned JW
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:06:28 +0000 Eeyore
wrote in Message id:
:

I have some useful manuals etc that might be of interest but they are
too large to post singly (my news provider rejects them). Around 1 MB or
so.

Winrar. As a plus, it also compresses them. Often, smaller than zip.

How about IZArc.org It's free. "Create Multi-Volume Set". Plus it
pretty much replaces all the other programs.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany


It doesn't matter what you use to split up a file, there is STILL a
limit placed on Usenet posts, so the size of the file segments needs to
be smaller than that figure.

Most news clients which include uuencode-decode capacity usually will
also break up a large post at a pre-specified number of lines per
segment.

So with the RIGHT news client (not some LAME POS like Outhouse
UnExpressive), one does not have to do anything to the file at all,
because the news client will break up the post for you.

The reason folks also split up the file is so that if there are any
folks out there that didn't get it all, he only needs to re-post that one
file, not the entire thing.

WinPar is a good one too as it creates recovery data so that folks that
did not get it all can still likely put it together with the EC code.