(c) 1990 S.Hawtin.

  This directory contains a simple program to split a large file into many 
smaller ones, this allows you to edit large files then use join to stick 
them back together again.

  The command has the form

    split [-c<count>][-l<lump_size>][-p<pattern>] source [dest]

the simplest for of the command is

    split foo

this will split the file "foo" into a set of files "split.0", "split.1", 
"split.2" and so on, each file will contain 1000 characters from the file 
"foo".  You can change the starting count with the "-c" flag and the size 
of the files with the "-l" flag, so the command

    split -c100 -l6789 foo

will split the file into files "split.100", "split.101", "split.102" and so 
on each file containing 6789 charcters.

  The root output name is set bey the "dest" argument, so

    split foo file.

will create the files "file.0", "file.1" and so on.

  The final, and most interesting bit of the program is the "-p" flag, this 
gives a pattern that is used instead of a charcter count, so

    split "-pJIM 7" foo

will split the file each time it finds the string "JIM 7", placing the first 
such segment into "split.0", the second into "split.1" and so on.