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Re: Breaking Up A Text File

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From: OUELLETTE, JOHN
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <66SEtql$pqB@pwyz.rhein.de>, Peter@pwyz.rhein.de (Peter Wyzlic) writes...
>From: koala@sydney.dialix.com.au,
>Message: <4k89s1$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
>--
>USER ERROR: HIT ANYONE TO CONTINUE!


if size is the problem try using uucode 5.25 availabe at all the archives.
typing uuencode -s 22750 filename.ext will produse a file about 1.43 MB
which is handy to put on floppies. hope this helps.

-john

jouell01@ucis.vill.edu

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From: jouell01@catsucis.vill.edu (OUELLETTE, JOHN)
Subject: Re: Breaking Up A Text File
Date: 1996/04/08
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