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   From: mick    
   Subject: Re: software file joiner   
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   Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:57:58 GMT   
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   On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:47:47 -0500, CBFalconer wrote:   
      
   > Chuck Dubois wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:08:54 -0500, CBFalconer wrote:   
   >>    
   >>>>>   cat f1 f2 .... > bigfile   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It blows up on wmv files.   
   >>>   
   >>> No reason for that, unless the output file is too big for your   
   >>> system.  What error does cat give you?   
   >>    
   >> It throws garbage characters on the screen, beeps the system   
   >> speaker and the display starts scrolling.   
   >    
   > Sounds like you omitted the "> bigfile" in the command above.   
   >   
      
   I'll second that. I can cat wmv files no problem. Whether the resulting   
   file is worth watching is something else though...      
      
   Something to watch out for is that sometimes the input filenames have   
   spaces in them, in which case you have to put quotes around each file to   
   be "cat"ed or rename them all to get rid of the spaces. (cat sees a space   
   as the delimiter for each input filename)   
      
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