Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:33:58 +0000 (   )
From: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
To: Ian Chapman <Ian DOT Chapman DOT ichapman AT nt DOT com>
Cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: split and merge
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ian Chapman wrote:

> 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.

There are two kinds of split. One comes with the djdev subpackage, and 
the other with the text utilities. The correct split to use with the 
merge program is the one that comes with djdev, not the one that comes 
with the gnu textutils. This happens if you unzip the textutils archive 
over the djdev one as most of us do. my unzipper warns me that split.exe is 
being overwritten however.

> 	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!

That is because you used the versions created by (text)split not 
(djdev)split. 

> 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.

Yes, it would. merge expects file extensions beginning with .000. So your 
original .AA file should have been .000. .AB should be .001 and so on.

I hope this helps.