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From: "Ian Chapman" <Ian DOT Chapman DOT ichapman AT nt DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: split and merge
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:10:20 -0400
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Hi all,
	I'm trying to put Netscape on my daughter laptop before she runs off
to university.  Since it does not have a CD she must stick to dos6.2 and
win3.1 thus 16bit.  I pulled over cc16e403.exe from Netscape and split it
into 10 files of 1405k ... cc16e403.AA to AJ.  Not 000 per the djgpp info.
So that's a wee little bit odd.  Put the files on floppies and moved them
onto my daughters laptop.

	On my daughters system I did :-

CWSDOMI	// seems okay
MERGE CC16E403 CC16E403.EXE	// to put it back together
// All I got was a null .exe file!

Next I  did COPY CC16E403.AA DD.001
                                                 AB DD.002

merge DD DD.exe // gave exit sigsegv ... ?

REN DD.002 DD.000 and merge worked.

	So I'm reporting a minor bug if BASE.000 is not there merge fails
ungracefully and I have an AMAZING situation with BASE.AA through .AJ being
generated by split in place of BASE.000 through BASE.n per info, split
--help and merge --help and all docs I was able to find.

	My work round is to rename all the files from .AA etc to .000 etc.
Now merge worked and Netscape is installing at last.

	In $djgpp$/bin I have:-

merge.exe	37,376	10-31-96	7:14p
split.exe	61,952	02-01-97	7:08p ... are these the right
vintages?

		Goodnight Ian.