Re: cat on win32

[Matthew Smith]

You neglected to say where you got this version of "cat".  Are you using
cygwin?  If so, please see http://www.cygwin.com, and re-direct the question
to the cygwin mailing list.

thanks,
-Matt Smith


> Hello,
> I found doing:
> cat -B filename.* > result.bin
> will give a file little bigger than sum of bytes of single files.
>
> If I do, instead:
> copy /B filename.aa + filename.ab /B + ... + filename.ap /B result2.bin
>
> I have a file that is exactly the result file.
>
> Maybe something wrong with cat compiled for win32?
> My file was 81.340.416 bytes, splitted with: split -b 5m
>
>  >cat --version
>  >cat (GNU textutils) 2.0
>  >Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
>  >
>  >Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  >This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
>  >warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.