textifying, splitting, rejoining binaries

[Joshua Rosen]

"William S. Shu" wrote:

> My question is/are:
> 1)    Could you please indicate to split and later recombine binary file(s)?

    Use the `cat' command to recombine split files.

> 2)    Do I need to convert the file to a text equivalent before using split?
> If so, what software can I use to do this?

    Apparently--try uuencoding the file; GNU uuencode is distributed as part of
the GNU `shar utilities' set, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/ and try compiling.

        -Rzn.



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