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Article #41091Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts
From: Jeff
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1989 18:28
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1989 18:28
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In article <22045@dhw68k.cts.com>, thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes: > In article <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> fmodwyer@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Frank O'Dwyer, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, IRELAND) writes: > >Is there a utility around which will join BinHexed files which have > >been split for mailing (as in comp.binaries.mac, for example)? > I dont get it. The things came from unix in the first place, and unix has this neat tool (I no its too sophisticated for the Mac :-) ) called cat. Just edit and cat the bits BEFORE => the Mac, and the problem goes away. In all seriousness, this is another example of the deficiency of the Mac approach for non application tasks. You DO need a command line and simple tools every now and again -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jeff Tate | 2425 Pandora Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada | | van-bc!softop!jeff | (604) 254-4583 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!rutgers!att!alberta!ubc-cs!van-bc!softop!jeff From: jeff@softop.UUCP (Jeff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts Summary: cat - the animal act Message-ID: <110@softop.UUCP> Date: 13 Apr 89 18:28:45 GMT References: <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> <22045@dhw68k.cts.com> Organization: Soft Options, Vancouver, BC, Canada Lines: 22