file too large

[Lars P. Fischer]

In article <2388 at netcom.UUCP> beaulieu at netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes:
>I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like
>to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle
>this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer.
>The same goes for ed and ex.

Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters.

/Lars
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