I used to have a lot of problems trying to concatenate the data files from the SQL dumps using Windows XP as an OS but thanks to Brion Vibber and other I figure it out. What I did to solve it is use Cygwin: Download and install Cygwin. Open Cygwin by clicking on the icon from your desktop and go to the location of your hard drive where the split files are situated. To concatenate multiple files into a single file you could do: $ cat xaa xab xac xad xae > old_table.sql.bz2 or $ cat xa? > old_table.sql.bz2 The name �old_table� is an arbitrary name and has no real importance. To extract the file you can use Bzip2 with this command: $ bzip2 �dc old_table.sql.bz2 > old_table.sql To perform both tasks in one command you can do: $ cat xa? | bzip2 �dc > old_table.sql Claudio --- Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Timwi wrote: Under Windows, use the /b switch to ensure that no funny cr-lf translation will occur: copy /b xa+xb+xc target.sql Alfio