On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:23:56PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I can't recall a case where split with a byte count followed by a cat of > the generated files didn't reproduce the input. What can possibly go wrong? Maybe I'm showing my age, but Unix split used to be only for line-oriented text files. Has the current version for Linux become binary-compatible? Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx