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50% useless app
Authored by: Chas on Jan 04, '02 07:52:37PM
There is no reason why anyone would need the concat half of this app. This is exactly the sort of function where the command line rules. For example, let's say you have a bunch of files like file.001 file.002 etc. Just go to the command line and input
cat file* > newfile
Note that you must pick a new file name, if you do something stupid like
cat file* > file
then you get stuck in a recursive loop, the file will append itself to itself and grow until all disk space is exhausted, then cat will die.
I am sure there is an equally efficient method for splitting files via the command line, but I never looked for it, I have never done this sort of task.
And BTW, for all you people that don't like secret web-tracking (which AFAIK is illegal in England and some other European countries) you can download the file using Anonymizer at this URL:
http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/SplitandConcat.dmg.sit

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