joining multiple PDFs into one

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:54:43PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> cat simply does not work with all kinds of files, and does not work
>> reliably with PDFs. I don't see any reason to assume that the "only
>> two possibilities" are as you assume.
>
> <pedantic mode>
> cat works fine.  It joins chunks of bits together.  The PDF format
> doesn't work with concatenated PDFs though.  But still, cat works great
> on all file types, given it doesn't care what it is, it is just bits.
> </pedantic mode>
>

That's pretty pedantic...but I hear you :)

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