Bill Jonas on Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:15:24 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] split & cat


On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> 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

type

(Imagine a Linux newbie's confusion when they try 'type file' and get
'bash: type: file: not found' instead of the contents of 'file'.  Old
habits and all that.)

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