From: fabio@billie.Colorado.EDU (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: ƒRe: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma) 28 Oct 1996 21:46:52 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610290111.SAA01545.cygnus.gnu-win32@billie.Colorado.EDU> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: Mail from '"Henrik Geleff" ' dated: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:49:44 +0200 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com ->Anybody wanting to see the contents of a binary file can use od -c or if ->only the text is wanted strings. -> ->Regards ->Henrik Geleff Neither approach is useful to do the following: cat part* > my.tar.gz which is how I use cat most often. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio@Colorado.EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".