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Kees J Bot wrote:
> Works ok with Solaris dd or Minix dd.  (Assuming the latter is chmem'd
> up to allow larger block sizes.)

For the record, on SunOS 5.4(Solaris 2), splitby's results are even poorer
than that obtained using GNU.  With Mr. van Buul's workaround however, all
is well, in both cases.  And stdin can continue as the input. 

-- 
Andrew G. Dennon   agd@wimp
EOM
