From: groma AT everx DOT szbk DOT u-szeged DOT hu (Geza I. Groma)
Subject: Re: split and cat
26 Jan 1998 01:25:27 -0800
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Make sure that your working directory is mounted with the -b (binary) flag.
Hopefully this helps.
Geza Groma

malcolm wrote:

> Are split and cat supposed to work properly as a means of splitting
> large binary files and joinging the pieces back together. I find that
> split craps out having performed a good job of creating nothing useful.
> If I use split on a Linux box and then try to use cat to put the bits
> back together, that fails as well. Typical files I have tried are 10+MB
> being split into 1MB chunks.
>
> Just curious to hear if anyone has got them to work - in which case its
> my setup. Or if its a common problem, is a fix on the way?
>
> regards
> malcolm
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