Claudio V wrote:
Another particular problem is that while logged in
Knoppix I cannot do "cat xaa xab xac xad xae >
somefile.bz2" because it will return an error.
By default Knoppix mounts all drives read-only, so I'm guessing the
error is that it's unable to write somefile.bz2 to a read-only drive
(though if you provided the actual error message I could be more
certain). If the drive is something Linux can write to (i.e. not NTFS),
you can remount it read/write from the file manager (right-click and
it'll be an option in the context menu).
You can also concatenate files from a command line in Windows (go to
start->run and enter "cmd" to get there) by doing:
copy xaa+xab+xac+xad+xae somefile.bz2
(I'm not sure what utilities on Windows can decompress bzip2 files though.)
-Mark