Fit 4+gig file on DVD - split it?

Hi all,
I need to fir a 4.2 gig file onto a DVD in such a way that it can be accessed from Windows XP (so no Linux-filesystem-on-DVD methods).
Does anyone know of a way to do this without splitting the file?
If not, what's the best recommended way to split a file for recombination in XP, preferably with GUI FOSS or software built into XP.
Thanks a lot,
~B

ISO9660/Joilet, the filesystem that mkisofs uses, has a 2GB file size limit (or 4GB, for the dev version).
The UDF filesystem has a much larger limit, but the UDF implementation in mkisofs/growisofs won't accept files larger than 2GB (or 4GB for dev ver???)
However, growisofs can burn a premastered UDF disc image to DVD.
So, I need to create a UDF image.
Taken from http://www.lemoncube.com/412.html
dd if=/dev/zero of=image2.udf bs=64k seek=71715 count=1
losetup /dev/loop0 image2.udf
mkudffs --media-type=dvd /dev/loop0
mount -t udf /dev/loop0 /mnt
cp backup_bigger_than_2gb.tar.gz /mnt
umount /mnt
losetup -d /dev/loop0
growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=image2.udf
BUT, When I try to copy the file to the new loop device, it bails out at 1GB with a "File size exceeded" error.
Turns out that, as of recently (around kernel version 2.6.8) , UDF in Linux is unable to handle files larger than 1GB.
See: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 1b539fea44
And: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-secu … 33301.html
In this last post, does anyone know what Omer meant about using strip to work around the problem?

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