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or you could use the 'split' command, to split the file into chunks, and use 
an editor to remove the stuff you don't need, and cat them all back together. 

-Jay

On Friday 15 April 2005 06:10 am, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> I have a KMail MBox mail file that grew to over 2GB accidently and it
> apparently can't handle that. As soon as i try to dl new email the
> program exits and moving emails to another folder then compressing the
> folder is not reducing its size. Can someone recommend a common linux
> editor that will let me lop off the top of the file and save it so it'll
> be below my, apparent, 2Gb limit?
>
>     thanx & later,
>
>        Ben Scherrey
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