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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: binary split
Keywords: split, cat
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.050012.23581@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 05:00:12 GMT
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  The 4.3BSD split program tries to notice when files it's trying to split are
binary, and act appropriately when they are.  Unfortunately, the code that
does this is somewhat buggy and doesn't always work.

  The 4.3tahoe (and probably 4.3reno as well) split has an explicit
command-line flag you can give it to tell it to act like it's splitting a
binary file, instead of a text file.  If you don't give it the option, it
always assumes that the file you're trying to split is a text file.  So you
could snarf the sources to split from the /bsd-sources directory on
uunet.uu.net, although you might have a bit of trouble compiling it if you
don't have ANSI C header files.

  If you don't want to do that, you can get the "bsplit" program in the
comp.sources.misc archives at any comp.sources.misc archive site (including
/comp.sources.misc on uunet.uu.net).  In general, it is a good idea to check
the archives on uunet.uu.net (or some other archive site that archives most
source newsgroups) before posting a question like this to the net.  I found
out about bsplit by typing getting the comp.sources.misc index file from
uunet.uu.net and grepping for the word "split" in it.

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