Jon Marett replied ... >I have used stuffit for compressing and segmenting large archive >files into DVD or CD sized pieces. When you try to mount one of the >segments, it just asks for the location of the remaining segments. > ><http://www.stuffit.com/mac/standard/> Right. Thanks Jon. I forgot about that. I wonder, though: is there any reason that an initially compressed and segmented group of files would somehow lose their "bootability" when they're joined? Dave