I need to take a binary file and split it so that I can send in a smaller chunk.

I'm thinking about justing reading in x bytes, and saving out those bytes. Then I can just read the file back and append each chunk out to recreate the original file.

My question is. Is this the best way to go about it? I've been googling around to see if there was a best way to do this.

Should I read x + 100k for each piece to make sure that it matches up? I'm planning on taking a MD5 of the original and each piece to verify that it is good. I also probably will zip and encrypt each piece. Those parts are easy.

I need this to work on an os where zip or unix utilites will not be available.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Wayne

In reply to Splitting a binary file by warthurton

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