hi friends,
I have a file at one place .....and i need to copy that file into another directory with same name ,but not the whole file at a time...
i need to copy it block by block(say block may be of some particular bytes)
Can anyone give some idea regarding this.....


Thanks in advance

You could use the "dd" program to cut out slices of the file. You can then append the output of dd to the destination file.

You can use the slice program to produce slices of a file. They can be joined with "cat".

Thank you for reply......

BUt, Sorry, i forget to say you that ... i was trying to that in Server-Client based program(udp based....
I need to acknowledge each block of data when received.....
Say
Client ------------------------------------------ Server
WriteRequest( with filename )
-------------------------------------------------->
acknowledge Request Obtained
<---------------------------------------------------
Need to Send Data(of Certain Block)
--------------------------------------------------->
Ack of Block od Data Sent
<-----------------------------------------------------


Like that i need to prooceed........
Any suggetions regarding this.....

Which programming language?

im doing it using "C" language

Open the file:

http://linux.die.net/man/3/fopen

loop reading in blocks until EOF:

http://linux.die.net/man/2/read

close the file:

http://linux.die.net/man/3/fclose

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