They are not designed as general purpose tools. Key is a directory to copy from, value is a directory to copy to. The read and the written file may be identical, but on AFS it is quite likely, people are installing to a different directory than the one where the files later appear. This is useful for binary distributions. Filenames with the extension pm are autosplit.
Second argument is the autosplit directory.
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