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From: beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: file too large
Keywords: vi can't read file - help?
Message-ID: <2388@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 06:14:58 GMT
Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175 guest}
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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.

Thanks for any help.
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Bob Beaulieu
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