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On Sunday 21 September 2008 23:05:48 Tim Kellers wrote:
> multimedia files.  It works very well when the target (or source) file
> is a large multimedia file that needs to be transmitted in small
> sections and reassembled.

Then it's no different then split/cat. It would be different, if it would 
handle different multimedia formats special, preserving keyframes accross 
parts, for example. FreeBSD split/cat is perfectly capable of handling large 
files and doesn't need tons of #ifdef's to be Portable(tm).
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.