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James Miller wrote:
>
> One deals with splitting, then rejoining files
> using split (is it part of busybox, btw?). 

No, the BL3 busybox does not have split.  
But you can split files using dd (which is there).

> It's handy, for instance, when you have a long file 
> that you want to transmit over an unreliable> network 
> connection -- where (unlike modern FTP) the transfer 
> protocol can't resume an interrupted transfer 

BL3 has wget, which is able to resume an interrupted 
transfer.

> It's best to use a utility like md5sum or sum to 
> be sure that the reassembled bigfile.tar.gz is 
> identical to the original.

BL3 has md5sum.

> dd if=/dev/urandom 

BL3 does not have /dev/urandom but you can
created it by doing this:
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mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
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> you can repeat the "wiping" command several times 
> with the C shell repeat command

BL3 does not have repeat.

Cheers,
Steven

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