Rick GC drunkenly mumbled...
> 
>                 cat set_name.?? | gunzip | tar xfp -
> 
> After inserting the file ksrc121.aa into the above command the system
> replies with:
> 
>         gunzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>         tar: unexpected EOF on archive file

type that command again, but this time, don't type ksrc121.aa, but ksrc121.??
what the command cat ksrc121.?? does it uses cat the way it was originally
designed (using it to put text on stdout wasn't it's original purpose. 'cat'
stands for concatenate files.  take a bunch of seperate files and put them
together in one file.  for example:

cat ksrc121.?? > ksrc121.tar.gz

will create the gzipped tar file by putting them all together.  this is how you
get binary files back together that have been 'split'

-brian 

-- 
The fundamental difference between Unix and the Macintosh operating system is
that Unix was designed to please programmers, whereas the Mac was designed to 
please users. (Windows, on the other hand, was designed to please accountants, 
but that's another story.)
				--The UNIX-HATERS Handbook

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