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textifying, splitting, rejoining binaries
- To: "William S. Shu" <wshu@essex.ac.uk>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: textifying, splitting, rejoining binaries
- From: Joshua Rosen <rozzin@geekspace.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:05:10 -0400
- Organization: GEEKS
- References: <00da01bebbde$9d6f3f40$01def59b@sh581.essex.ac.uk>
"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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