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Re: [LinuxRedHatInstall] file splitting utility



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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