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Re: [COLD] Is there a new version of dumpsplit available?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sun Nov 3 12:01:46 1996 )

Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:42:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>
To: Frank Crowell <frankc@maddog.com>
cc: Cold Stuff <coldstuff@cold.org>
In-Reply-To: <327C5EB4.7F09936A@maddog.com>

> I would like to split out my Alpha 4 textdump but the copy 
> of dumpsplit that I have doesn't seem to work correctly.
> Here are the messages I get:
> 	Splitting db
> 	Invalid object name "$root;", stripping to "$root".
> 	.
> 	Invalid object name "$sys: $root;", stripping to "$sysroot".
> 	.
> 
> Then it seems to hang.
> 
> I started to split the file by hand, but then I got bored.
> Anyone have a dumpsplit that works with A4?

Yeah, dumpsplit is ancient, and assumes the old db format.  I'll look at
it today and see what I can do.

-B