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: <19990621171119.25746.rocketmail@send205.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:11:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: How do I split binaries to manageable chunks To: itz@lbin.com Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- itz@lbin.com wrote: -8<- > Well, this looks exactly like the situation that shows the ultimate > futility of trying to accomodate MSDOG text files. How is split to > know what type of file it is handling? Should we embed a copy of > file(1) into split? Stoop down to MSDOG practice and rely on file > names? Or what? The utility split should just always process in binary mode. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't include me) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com