From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: split and cat (NBY) 29 Jan 1998 11:36:41 -0800 Message-ID: <19980129224927.52133.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <34C91A31.36F6AA85@eml.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On 28-Jan-1998, hgfernan@usp.br wrote: > On 23 Jan 98 at 22:31, malcolm wrote: > > > Are split and cat supposed to work properly as a means of splitting > > large binary files and joinging the pieces back together. I find that > > split craps out having performed a good job of creating nothing useful. > > If I use split on a Linux box and then try to use cat to put the bits > > back together, that fails as well. Typical files I have tried are 10+MB > > being split into 1MB chunks. > > > > Just curious to hear if anyone has got them to work - in which case its > > my setup. Or if its a common problem, is a fix on the way? > > congratulations: like everybody else you've been bitten by the > binary/non-binary file dichotomy in gnu-win32. :-) Homework exercise: patch `split' so that it opens its files in binary mode. (`cat' is a bit more troublesome, but adding a `--binary' option should not be too hard.) -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".