file too large

[Craig Steinberger]

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.

There is a program called csplit that should do the trick.