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Article #25725: GSPLIT Doesn't Work Under Windows (NT/95/98)

Problem:
It seems that piping the results of a backup to gsplit doesn't work under Windows (NT/95/98)

Solution:
This information applies to:

*Windows NT 4.0
*InterBase 5.x

Microsoft Windows (NT/95/98) lack of operating system support for I/O redirection and pipelines prevents
gsplit from working correctly on Windows (NT/95/98). 

Our generic documentation does not highlight this limitation.

There are various sources (GNU,MKS,ReedKotler,etc) for Unix-like tools to perform a split
operation on the output stream of gbak  which could be used to work arround this limitation.
(you would substitute split for gsplit in our documented examples)

Last Modified: 23-OCT-00