Re: Breaking Up A Text File

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From: Peter Wyzlic
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00

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From: koala@sydney.dialix.com.au,
Message: <4k89s1$gkr$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>,
Date: 08 Apr 96, 02:21

You wrote in /comp/os/msdos/misc on "Re: Breaking Up A Text File":

>termite1@cris.com (Termite) writes:
>>I have a 53+Meg text file (actually a bunch of uu-encoded files
>>appended together) that I have to break down into smaller files that
>>my uu-decoder can handle.

>You could use the Un*x-style AWK utility to separately extract the files
>from your conglomerate to FILE1.UUE, FILE2.UUE, FILE3.UUE, and so on.
>
>awk 'BEGIN {n=1} /^begin/,/^end/ {print > "FILE"n".UUE"} /^end/ {n++}'
>filename

Why not *split*? There is also a Dos implementation of the Unix program  
split. But can it handle a 53 Mb file? I tested it on 3 Mb (ascii) text  
files and it worked.

\bye
Peter Wyzlic
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Date: 1996/04/08
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