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Hej August!

 AA> split started to be a requirement when I needed a command-line
 AA> way to break up a 7GB media .iso file suitable to transport on
 AA> a usb drive from my windows-based machines.

Ah!  That would explain the need, although these days it is becoming hard to
find usb drives less than 8G.

 AA> Would be nice to use a more uptodate split.exe for windows

The latest I could find was part of a coreutils 5.0 collection which puts it
around 2003 as far as the gnu release of that version.  textutils-2.0 ws
released in late 1999.  That is roughly +24 years ago.

 AA> Meanwhile, I am very happy to see that Busybox split has no
 AA> noticeable limit for the -b parameter.

I would definetly go with the busybox version as that is vastly more up to
date.

 AA> That, and the ability to do piping like:

For sure.  I use pipes all the time.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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