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From: roeder@robin.cs.uni-sb.de (Edgar &)
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Subject: Re: COMPRESS - help (was ZOO.TTP help)
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Date: 23 Oct 90 15:08:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com's message of 22 Oct 90 14:33:14 GMT

In article <828.2722a0bb@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com writes:

> Last question: How do you combine multipart, binary .Z files to decompress
> them.  I've tried "cat f1 f2 >>f3" from gulam but f3 always gets smaller than
> the starting files.  Word perfect and First word also don't like binary...

You can try the cat from the GNU-fileutils or less to concatenate the
files, or you can use the 'cp -a' (== appending copy) in Master. All
these items can be found at cs.uni-sb.de somewhere in the subdirs of
/pub/atari.

> Thanks for any help
>
> Jim Harres   jharres@doc.bmd.trw.com

Hope this helps!

	- Edgar