painter@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff Painter) (12/14/89)
I have a big binary file from a Unix box, which I split into smaller
files to fit in floppy disks. Now I need to concatenate them
back together on a Mac. Thus I need a Mac version of Unix's cat.
The closest I can find is "append" at sumex.stanford.edu, which
only works on text files.
Does anyone know of a Macintosh cat ?
I will post a summary of E-mailed replys. Thank you!
Jeffrey F. Painter painter@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
L-316, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory painter@lll-crg.llnl.gov
Livermore CA 94550 USA 415-422-0675, FTS 532-0675
415-423-7613, FTS 543-7613painter@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff Painter) (12/28/89)
In <41482@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> (13 Dec 89) I posted this query:
= I have a big binary file from a Unix box, which I split into smaller
= files to fit in floppy disks. Now I need to concatenate them
= back together on a Mac. Thus I need a Mac version of Unix's cat.
= The closest I can find is "append" at sumex.stanford.edu, which
= only works on text files.
Following are the more interesting replies.
I would like to thank the people who replied !
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Stuffit has a capability to Split and rejoin files. I don't know if it'll
do what you want, but it might be worth a try. See the "Segment..." and
"Join..." commands on the "Other" menu.
Pete Poorman
Control Data, Houston
pwp@shamash.cdc.com
[ I tried it. Stuffit only joins files which have the resource fork
it wants, i.e. files made by Stuffit's Segment command. The Segment
command is intended for exactly my purpose, but is useless for me
because it runs only on Macs.]
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There is a DA available from International Datawares Inc. 2278 Trade
Zone Boulevard, San Jose, CA 95131 on the Diskette Gazette DA 2 Disk
called SplitCat. SplitCat breaks down long files into 24kByte pieces.
After editing the text, they may be reasssembled with the Cat command.
SplitCat can also be used to concatenate BinHex files which come in
two or more parts ( you have to remember to remove the headlines from
all of the files first).
L. Leon Campbell
University of Delaware
400 Morris
Newark, DE 19717-5267
[ I haven't gotten this. It may be the answer, but I wonder whether
it might have the same problem as Stuffit's Segment/Join. Has anybody
actually used it for non-Macintosh *binary* files? ]
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I don't have any experience at it myself, since I never
bothered to read the manual, but a program like FEdit or some
other disk editting program should have provisions to copy
arbitrary amounts of binary data from one file onto the end of
another. You'd have to do it manually, though.
David Fry fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics fry@huma1.bitnet
Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA 02138
[ It sounds like this would work, though it's a lot of trouble. ]
Jeffrey F. Painter painter@lll-crg.llnl.gov
L-316, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory painter@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
Livermore CA 94550 USA 415-422-0675, FTS 532-0675
415-423-7613, FTS 543-7613