zip a huge file into multiple small ones

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> krishna chaitanya wrote:
>>
>> I am new to dealing with zip files in python.
>> I have a huge file which i need to zip and send as an attachment through
>> email.
>> My email restrictions are not allowing me to send it in one go.
>> Is there a way to split this file into multiple zip files, so that i can
>> mail them separately.
>> All the individual zip files should be linked.
>> I should be able to extract the original file by extracting the first of
>> the small zip files.
>
> You're using the wrong medium. Upload the file to an http server somewhere
> and just include a link in the email...

One such free service, among many others:
http://drop.io/

Cheers,
Chris
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