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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:05:10 -0400
From: Joshua Rosen <rozzin AT geekspace DOT com>
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To: "William S. Shu" <wshu AT essex DOT ac DOT uk>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: textifying, splitting, rejoining binaries
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"William S. Shu" wrote:

> My question is/are:
> 1)    Could you please indicate to split and later recombine binary file(s)?

    Use the `cat' command to recombine split files.

> 2)    Do I need to convert the file to a text equivalent before using split?
> If so, what software can I use to do this?

    Apparently--try uuencoding the file; GNU uuencode is distributed as part of
the GNU `shar utilities' set, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/ and try compiling.

        -Rzn.



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