| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:36:01 -0500 |
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:33:13PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > That might be an issue in general, but it this case it will work just > fine. copy /b foo+bar baz will reconstruct the file without changing > anything in foo or bar. It will only work right if split(1) and DOS's copy think line endings are the same character. It *will* fail if they disagree. Are you suggesting that DOS's copy magically figures out what kind of line-ending existed previously? What about what split(1) does when there are two EOLs in a row? I can't test whether they do; I don't have a copy of DOS. (Or GNU split(1) without ssh'ing, for that matter...) Sounds like it works fine, but I wouldn't trust it in the general sense. dd(1), on the other hand, will give you *exactly* the source bytes, and it sounds like copy will do the same. It's just safer. It's also, it would seem, moot at this point. :^> -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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