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> 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

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