How to compress & segment large files

I have always used Stuffit but it is too expensive for such an
unreliable commercial program. I want to be able to compress and
archive large files. Some larger than 4.3 gig so to burn them to DVD i
need to segment them. Some of the files are .dv video files.

I would presume that .rar or .gzip are the most common and will be
accomodating software several years from now. I know i might do these
in Terminal mode but i aint a Terminal guy, and am looking for a GUI.

What software would you recommend to create and segment compressed
archives?

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In article <030120061100444790%hfdhe@meck.com>, Heck <hfdhe.TakeThisOut@meck.com>
wrote:

> I have always used Stuffit but it is too expensive for such an
> unreliable commercial program. I want to be able to compress and
> archive large files. Some larger than 4.3 gig so to burn them to DVD i
> need to segment them. Some of the files are .dv video files.
>
> I would presume that .rar or .gzip are the most common and will be
> accomodating software several years from now. I know i might do these
> in Terminal mode but i aint a Terminal guy, and am looking for a GUI.
>
> What software would you recommend to create and segment compressed
> archives?

man hdiutil
or
hdiutil segment -help

I'm not sure if Disk Utility will do this from the GUI. You create a
..dmg and then segment it. You can encrypt the segments too.
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