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Re: [LinuxRedHatInstall] file splitting utility
- From: Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>
- To: redhat-install-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: [LinuxRedHatInstall] file splitting utility
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:34:52 -0500
Luke C Gavel wrote:
>
> I agree, in that 'split', 'cat' and 'csplit' work well with ASCII
> files, they've saved me hours of work with hundreds of little
> HTML files, but how well do they work with binary files?
Fine. Nearly all Unix tools work were designed to work with binary
data and work with text only as a side-benefit. As the man page
makes no refernce to ASCII anywhere, I would not presume it is
so limited.
- Kevin Colby
kevinc grainsystems com
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