Arthur S. Alexion on Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:53:22 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] split & cat


On Monday 04 November 2002 03:53 pm, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > I wouldn't trust split(1) with binary files, though it may work
> > fine.
>
> split(1) (at least GNU's version) works just fine with binary files.

According to the info file, split works fine, but the windows version 
of cat (wherever that is to be found) has trouble combining binaries 
because of the difference between dos and unix EOF markers
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