Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <376E3886.BB800F6@geekspace.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:05:10 -0400 From: Joshua Rosen Organization: GEEKS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ja,no MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "William S. Shu" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: textifying, splitting, rejoining binaries References: <00da01bebbde$9d6f3f40$01def59b@sh581.essex.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "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. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com