file too large

Wm E Davidsen Jr davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Fri Sep 22 22:27:11 AEST 1989


You can use sed to break it if you don't have any fancy tools.
	sed -n "1,1000p" big.file >part.1
Obviously you will want to pick the breakpoints by content.

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