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- This file should contain BREAKUP.PRG and BREAKUP.TXT. This program is FREEWARE.
- All rights reserved. Note that FREEWARE does not mean Public Domain.
-
- I have often let my Aladdin files get to large to load into a word processor
- or text editor. I ended up trying to split the files manually. This was
- a difficult task sometimes so I sat down and wrote this little program. I
- had seen several request on GEnie for such a program and thus decided to
- share it with others.
-
- Breakup is a very simple utility to split large files. It is nothing elaborate
- or anything. You just enter 3 pieces of information and off it goes. Breakup
- has NOT been tested on anything other than a Mega STE 4 with TOS 2.06. It
- should however work on all ST systems. I do not know about a TT since I do
- not have one. Reports indicate that it does work on a TT though.
-
- I, or Southern Software (the company) cannot be held responsible for any
- damages, lost time, lost information, lost profit or anything else. You
- accept this program as is. Nothing intentionally has been added to cause
- any form of damage.
-
- Ok, now onto running Breakup.
-
- When the program boots up, you will be presented with a prompt asking what
- size in 1K increments to make each block. There is a 4000K (4 meg) limit on
- the size of each block. You can enter '0' here to terminate the program. The
- program will then calculate the number of blocks that is required to split
- the file in the size you have chosen. There is a limit of 999 blocks. That
- calculates to a possible original file size of 4,091,904,000 bytes.
-
- If at anytime the program cannot allocated the required memory to do the spilt,
- it will inform you of a memory allocation error and ask you to choose another
- block (file) size.
-
- You will next be presented with a fileselector to choose the file you wish
- to split. Selecting CANCEL here will terminate the program.
-
- You will now be presented with another fileselector to select the drive
- and/or path that you want the split files to be written to. Selecting CANCEL
- here will terminate the program also.
-
- The program will then start splitting the file into the file size you
- requested. The last file to be created will contain what is left over after
- splitting the file into those sizes. The program will display the filename it
- is currently writing.
-
- The program will write the files with the extension of the number of the file
- it is currently on. Here is an example of a file that I split.
-
- Block Size: 1000 (1000K = 1024000 = 1meg)
- Filename: STRTINP.TXT (filesize = 2726585)
-
- The program will produce the following.
-
- File #1: STRTINP.001 (filesize = 1024000)
- File #2: STRTINP.002 (filesize = 1024000)
- File #3: STRTINP.003 (filesize = 678585 )
-
- The program will leave the original file intact. It will never do anything
- to the original file except to read it in.
-
- After the program has finished splitting the file, it will return you to the
- prompt asking for the Block size of the next file. You can either do another
- file by entering the size you want or, you can enter 0 to terminate the program.
-
- I hope this will be as useful to you as it has been for me.
-
- A FREEWARE product from Southern Software
-
- Copyright © 1992 - 1993, Southern Software
-
- Wayne Watson
- GEnie address R.WATSON15
-
-