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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:01:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Binary File split
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On 10 May 2010, at 16:39, erik quanstrom wrote:

>> Just curious having not heard of split before, what's the purpose of
>> it as-is? :)
>
> split(1) is pretty informative.  in =DEe auncien[t] dais, it was =20
> sometimes hard
> to send big files by email or fit them on floppies or 9 track tapes.
>
> rchistory(1) shows i haven't used it once in the last 5 years.
>
> dict has this to say about ancient things.  perhaps this is
> why split sticks with us
>
> 	Remove not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set.
> 		Prov. xxii. 28.
>
> - erik
>

Right. XD

--=20
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis