[Gllug] Stories of using filters

[Joel Bernstein]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:06:08PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> In the past it was handy for chopping files up into 1.44MB chucks so they
> would fit onto a bunch of floppies, but I don't tend to do that any more.
> And of note, there's no easy way to recombine them in the MS world anyway,
> which caused me no end of pain:
> 
> Me:   I've split the file onto floppies, and put them in the post for you.
> <time passes>
> User: OK, they've arrived. How do I get at the data.
> Me:   Cat the files together, and unzip the result with pkzip.
> User: Huh?

That's nonsense.

copy fileb >>filea
copy filec >>filea
...

works a dream.

/joel
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