.TH BSPLIT 1 "29 August 1990"
.SH NAME
bsplit \- split a binary file into nnn-byte pieces
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bsplit
[ [ \-nnn ] file ] .\|.\|. [ - ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I bsplit
splits its argument file(s) into nnn-byte pieces.
The size of the pieces are determined by the
most-recently encountered
.I \-nnn
option.  If the size option
.I \-nnn
is omitted, then 32768 is assumed.  The split
pieces go into parts named like the argument file,
but with the suffix -mmm (-001, -002, etc.).
.PP
The special option value
.I \-
means standard input, and the output pieces will
be named stdin-001, stdin-002, etc.
.PP
Splitting of large files is useful for electronic
mail transmission (32KB is the recommended maximum
size), and to facilitate FTP file transfers over
connections that experience fatal timeouts for
large files.
.PP
The split size is always forced internally to be a
multiple of 512, which is the minimum block size
on most current systems.  By ensuring that the
parts are multiples of file system blocksizes,
corruption of the pieces through addition of
padding garbage on some record-oriented file
systems can be avoided.
.PP
For text files, where it is desirable to split at 
line boundaries, use 
.IR "split(1)" .
.SH SEE\ ALSO
mail(1), split(1), uuencode(1), uuencode(5), uusend(1C),
uucp(1C), uux(1C), xxencode(1)
.SH STATUS
This program and its manual page are placed in the
.I public
.IR domain .
.SH AUTHOR
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Nelson H. F. Beebe
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Center for Scientific Computing
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Department of Mathematics
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220 South Physics Building
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University of Utah
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Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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Tel: (801) 581-5254