file grouping answer.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:51:32PM +0100, michael wrote:

> I was going to ask:-
> 
> I've got a load of files I want to efficently sort
into groups of 4.2Gb(1)
> for burning to DVD.  How do I go about doing this?

The quick answer is "install packcd". (I'm
pretty sure it has a switch
to let you specify different media sizes). 

http://offog.org/code/

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:00:06PM +0100, David Dorward
wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:51:32PM +0100, michael
wrote:
> 
> > I was going to ask:-
> > 
> > I've got a load of files I want to efficently
sort into groups of 4.2Gb(1)
> > for burning to DVD.  How do I go about doing this?
> 
> The quick answer is "install packcd". (I'm
pretty sure it has a switch
> to let you specify different media sizes). 
> 
> http://offog.org/code/

I don't suppose there'd be something resembling a man page
or something
for that, would there...?

dha

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On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:01 -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
> > http://offog.org/code/
> 
> I don't suppose there'd be something resembling a man
page or something
> for that, would there...?

No. Adam doesn't bother putting together a complete page
for utilities
unless he has something worth saying. Its a 3kb tarball.

If it helps:

usage: packcd [-cfibmq] [-s SIZE] FILES ...

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On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:35, David Dorward wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:01 -0500, David H. Adler
wrote:
> > > http://offog.org/code/
> > 
> > I don't suppose there'd be something resembling
a man page or something
> > for that, would there...?
> 
> No. Adam doesn't bother putting together a complete
page for utilities
> unless he has something worth saying.

Er, "something worth saying", you know, like how
one uses the thing and
so forth.

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:51:28AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe
wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:35, David Dorward wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:01 -0500, David H. Adler
wrote:
> > > > http://offog.org/code/
> > > 
> > > I don't suppose there'd be something
resembling a man page or something
> > > for that, would there...?
> > 
> > No. Adam doesn't bother putting together a
complete page for utilities
> > unless he has something worth saying.
> 
> Er, "something worth saying", you know,
like how one uses the thing and
> so forth.

"How does your code work?"
"No comment."


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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:51:28AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe
wrote:
> Er, "something worth saying", you know,
like how one uses the thing and
> so forth.

Comes with a man page.

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On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 10:19, David Dorward wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:51:28AM +0100, Jonathan
Stowe wrote:
> > Er, "something worth saying", you
know, like how one uses the thing and
> > so forth.
> 
> Comes with a man page.

Er right.


> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:35, David Dorward wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:01 -0500, David H. Adler
wrote:
> > > > http://offog.org/code/
> > > 
> > > I don't suppose there'd be something
resembling a man page or something
> > > for that, would there...?
> > 
> > No.


Maybe that's the other 'No' then.

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:37:36AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe
wrote:
> > Comes with a man page.
> Er right.
> > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:35, David Dorward wrote: 
> > > No.
> Maybe that's the other 'No' then.

Early morning blindness. I read "web page".

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:35:25AM +0100, David Dorward
wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:01 -0500, David H. Adler
wrote:
> > > http://offog.org/code/
> > 
> > I don't suppose there'd be something resembling
a man page or something
> > for that, would there...?
> 
> No. Adam doesn't bother putting together a complete
page for utilities
> unless he has something worth saying. Its a 3kb
tarball.
> 
> If it helps:
> 
> usage: packcd [-cfibmq] [-s SIZE] FILES ...

No, it doesn't help. What the hell do any of that first
group of options
do? What units is SIZE in? What happens to files too big to
fit in SIZE
- Do they get reported? Do they get silently ignored?

And that's just off the top of my head in about 10 seconds.

I think some of that might be worth saying. A usage
statement that's
mostly incomprehensible isn't all that useful, oddly. 

dha

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