Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: I think (but I can't swear) that the problem is file headers. The PDF has a header that gives data like length etc. So when you cat them together the first header is wrong. The second is in the middle etc. I agree that the only way is to cvt to ps then merge then conver

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:07 pm, Vox wrote: > 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 b

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 11:19 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: > > 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 c

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: > 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 cho

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Vox
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 o

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread lists
Use redirection. > creates file >> appends to file. cat blah >> newblah This will cause blah to be appended to newblah However I really don't think this will work with a pdf. pdf's aren't plain text... but hey worth a try. Nigel Wilkinson wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:18:20 -0400 (ED

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > 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. > > The problem: > the list of files below, I would like to combine into

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:15, Mark wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >Hi, Mark. I've been following this, and it doesn't look promising, so > > >I wonder if it's time for a dirty solution. Could you not pdf2ps all > > >the files, open them in SOWriter, then cut and paste into one file, >

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:15 am, 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 firs

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
> Anne Wilson wrote: > > >Hi, Mark. I've been following this, and it doesn't look promising, so > >I wonder if it's time for a dirty solution. Could you not pdf2ps all > >the files, open them in SOWriter, then cut and paste into one file, > >save that as a new pdf? > > > >I know it's not eleg

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Noble
To combine multiple files into one just do the following: cat file1 file2 file3 >> newfile Mile Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 6:18 pm, Mark wrote: Hi List, 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 on

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 6:18 pm, Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > 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. > > The problem: > the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one > file. les_csharp_12_p

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Guy Van Sanden
either do: cat [file] [file] [file] [file] ... >CSharp_LESSON12.pdf or (cleaner) for i in les*.pdf; do cat $i >> CSharp_LESSON12.pdf; done I don't think you can just cat pdf's together though... (headers etc.) On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:18, Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > I've forgotten how to do so

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, KevinO wrote: > -pgpenvelope processed message > > Mark wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > 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. > > > > The problem: > > the list of files below, I

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:04, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Monday 01 September 2003 21:00, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > "pdf2pdf ?.pdf" > > that obviously should've been "pdf2ps" on the first line, sorry! HarM, Nothing shameful if it works... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:18, Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > 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. > > The problem: > the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. > les_csharp_12_

[expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
Hi List, 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. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf les_csharp_12_p2.pdf les_csharp_12_p3.pdf les_csha

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 September 2003 21:00, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > "pdf2pdf ?.pdf" that obviously should've been "pdf2ps" on the first line, sorry! -- Good luck, HarM Mandrake HowTo's & More:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandr

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
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. >

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:18 pm, Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > 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. Mark, you can do "cat *.(file_extension) > yourfile.ext" but I don't think it combines some file

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Björn Olsson
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > 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. > > The problem: > the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. > les_

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > 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. > > The problem: > the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. >

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Bill Mullen
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