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

[David L. Willson]

arj -v does arbitrary volume-sizes, too.  arj kicks arse.

FWIW, Zimbra has a B-A-ootiful solution to just this sort of problem.  Public (and
semi-public) shared folders.  Just finished RMSEL's Zimbra build/migration, and I think
I'm in love.  :-}

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:36:31 -0600, jefb wrote
> 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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-- David