From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: User.addresses?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 15:33:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1993Oct14.133249.1237@corona.com>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 14-Oct-93 User.addresses? by
Peter Kron@corona.com
> Is there a shell unix tool that will split large files like
> .compressed into smaller files that can be cat'd back
> together? I looked at the man page for split(1), but it
> gives me the impression that it only works for text-oriented
> files, not binary.

True.  You can get the GNU version of split, which can do both kinds of
splitting (from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu, probably binutils, but
maybe fileutils; I don't remember).  Or: snip this, and compile with
"cc -O2 -object -s -o bsplit bsplit.c":

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'cat part1 part2 part3 > filename' to rebuild the file