On Monday 01 September 2003 20:03, Bill Mullen wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Björn Olsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That
> > > is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file.
> >
> > Is that really possible? I thought cat only worked with pure text files.
> > Appending pdf files this way must surely break them?
>
> You can combine /any/ file types with cat. Whether or not this breaks pdf

It does break 'em!.....

Here's the dirty workaround I use:

"pdf2pdf xxxx?.pdf"

then:

"cat xxxx?.ps> xxxtotal.ps",

then:
"ps2pdf xxxtotal.ps".

Horribly shamefull but it works:o)
-- 
Good luck,

HarM

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