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Subject: Re: OT: usage of split
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> 2.  How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the 
> original file?  I assume you can cat text files into a new file using 
> redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file?

I'd say yes, you can cat a binary file (though it is likely to mess-up
your screen).

Olivier