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SPLIT [-Q] source dest length [offset]
* SPLIT is the opposite of JOIN .
It splits up a (large) source file into several smaller pieces which
get their name from "dest" and an automatically appended two digit
number. The asking between the single files allow to change floppy
disks and makes it possible to split a large file directly on multiple
floppy disks. See delete for more about that.
(The source file does not need to fit into memory.)
eg. split aminet.index df0:index 750000
{assuming that aminet.index is 2MB big, this creates df0:index01
df0:index02 and df0:index03 }
other egs. split -q bigfile small 10000 {does not ask}
split bigfile small 10000 5000 {skip the first 5000 bytes}