Subject: �Re: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma)
From: [email-masked] (Fabio Somenzi)

28 Oct 1996 21:46:52 -0800
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In-Reply-To: Mail from '"Henrik Geleff" <[email-masked]>'
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->Anybody wanting to see the contents of a binary file can use od -c or if
->only the text is wanted strings.
->
->Regards
->Henrik Geleff

Neither approach is useful to do the following:
    cat part* > my.tar.gz
which is how I use cat most often.

Fabio
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