Re: cat'ing files together

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jean-Christian" == Jean-Christian Imbeault <jean_christian@example.com> writes:

    Jean-Christian> I dunno but I would think that plain old 'cat'
    Jean-Christian> does more work than I need, which is just to link
    Jean-Christian> all the files into one big one.

No, the amount of work required to revise the directory entries and
munge the files so the that unused portions of alloc units are ignored
would require Oracle or so, and be pretty damn unreliable to boot.
Stick with cat.  All cat does[1] is copy bytes.


Footnotes: 
[1]  Well, yes, this is the GNU version, so it also responds to --help
and to --version (both with a couple dozen .mo files), walks dogs, and
debones fish.

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