[clue-talk] A "lifehacker" sort of question

[jefb]

Does zipslip not work for you?

[jef at home ~]$ zipsplit -h
Copyright (C) 1990-2005 Info-ZIP
Type 'zipsplit "-L"' for software license.

ZipSplit 2.31 (March 8th 2005)
Usage:  zipsplit [-tips] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] zipfile
  -t   report how many files it will take, but don't make them
  -i   make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file
  -n   make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000)
  -r   leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0)
  -b   use "path" for the output zip files
  -p   pause between output zip files
  -s   do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files
  -h   show this help    -v   show version info    -L   show software 
license

Jef

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> So, I was wondering if anyone knows of an extension to gmail, or some of the
> email readers that can use it, that would split up large batches of stuff
> being sent into several emails.
>
> Use case: you want to send several photos to someone who has an email
> account that rejects email over N megabytes. The tool let's you give a list
> of those files in whatever manner (ctrl select in an open file dialog), and
> then asks for upper limit (better yet if it can try to discover it by trying
> to send and wait a fixed amount of time to see if it bounced...) and then
> sends out Y emails, depending on how many photos can fit in that upper
> bound.
>
> I was tasked with just this thing - "can you send our vacation pics to so
> and so, who only has a Yahoo account" - which I think is capped at 10M per
> message, argh. Luckily, there weren't that many pics that had to be
> sent...very few in fact, considering what I often have after even a few days
> anywhere. But still, this seems VERY tedious.
>
> Now, I know I could, say, set up a Flikr account or similar and post to
> something like that, but I'm not sure what's involved with that, and some
> people don't want that as a solution (people on the other end).
>
> Anyone ever run across something like this? It would seem it's a pretty
> common task in order to get around email restrictions at the other end....
>
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