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Introduction

There are many new groups and there are many ways of posting. Sometimes it gets a bit confusing after downloading the files as to how to combine them to use them. Below are the most comon file formats youw ill find and way to combine them.

How to join split files .001 .002 .003 .004... back together ?

These file maybe made by split command.

• cat *.[0-9][0-9][0-9] > output.avi

or

• cat yourfile.avi.[0-9][0-9][0-9] >yourfile.avi

or

• cat yourfile.avi.??? >yourfile.avi

After your file is done it might be missing the idx. to fix this use

• mencoder -idx france_falls_1940.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o france_falls_1940_1.avi