File splitting utilities

I'm looking for a file splitting utility which will enable me to send a large file to a cousin in Canada. I don't want to make him have the corresponding recombining software so, I guess, it'll need in some way to have a little recombining utility 'built in'.

Gsplit seems one possibility.

Anyway got experience of such software?

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

I'm looking for a file splitting utility which will enable me to send a large file to a cousin in Canada. I don't want to make him have the corresponding recombining software so, I guess, it'll need in some way to have a little recombining utility 'built in'.

Gsplit seems one possibility.

Anyway got experience of such software?

Winrar,winzip,

Is this any use ?

http://www.sizablesend.com/

IIRC Winzip's abilities to span goes back to PKZIP and multiple floppies, and then having to put the last floppy in first and do the floppy shuffle.

Does it satisfy the 'no special software required by the receiver' test?

And Winzip is commercial software! Winrar?

Interesting approach. Probably over the top though.

It's subsequently occurred to me that I can upload it to my web space, I have enough, then just email him a link to the file.

7-Zip is open-source and creates very efficiently compressed files. It can create self-extracting archives and can split files. As it's free, it's worth a look.

If you are swapping files on anything like a regular basis, why not install dropbox. If you both install it and share a folder with each other, then you just plonk the file in a folder on your machine and it will appear in the folder on his. I appreciate that there is the need to install it.

Otherwise 7-zip as mentioned elsewhere in the thread is great.

Edited by philippercival (Mon 03-Oct-11 09:43:17)

winrar can serve that purpose, it will also compress saving you bandwidth and time assuming it compresses well.

its the simple things that work.