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 Þe auncien[t] dais, it was
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
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
