Text files read multiple files into single file, and then recreate the multiple files

[Mike Meyer]

googlinggoogler at hotmail.com writes:

> Would like to use text files, its really for my own learning,
>
> but I suppose a Zip would work 

How about outputing a file as:

LENGTH=######
<file-contents>

in your joined file? That's a minimalistic archive format - one ASCII
header line that provides just enough information to extract the
file. Be sure to open all files [rw]b, though.

      <mike
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