On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: > >> I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause >> I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the >> elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used "cat" do combine the >> files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that >> was all. don't know what I did wrong. > > Mark, someone else mentioned that they did not think it would work because it > was a binary format. That could be it. Otherwise the "cat" command would have > worked.
I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a binary, but that the reader of the file doesn't like headers-in-the-middle-of-a-file. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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