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From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber)
Subject: Re: splitting a one line file
Message-ID: <1993Oct6.223354.16367@sophia.smith.edu>
Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
References: <28si9m$ed6@male.ebay.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 22:33:54 GMT
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In article <28si9m$ed6@male.ebay.sun.com>,
Andrew Bulucea <andrewb@europe.EBay.Sun.COM> wrote:
>How do I split a long (10mb) file into n files ?. Note: split doesn't work 
>because the file has only one line... It's an audio file. It looks like this:

The split in the 386/Free/NetBSD release and thus I would assume
in the Net2 release has a -b option where you specify the number
of bytes.  I just built it on the systems I use which don't have
the option.  I think you can find it on gatekeeper.dec.com and
probably other places as well.

-john
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