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- !Split
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- By Peter Reeves-Hall
- © Peter Reeves-Hall
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- Notes
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- This program can be freely distrubuted to and used by other users of
- acorn computers under the following conditions:
- It is kept "whole" ie. files are not disributed on their own or the program
- copied without this help file.
- No alterations are made to the program or this help file.
- Only a small fee should be charged by P.D. libraries for handling and
- postage etc.
- The program may be recalled from the P.D. at any time.
- It should not be used to "pirate" software - This is a reposiblity of the
- user
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- N.B.
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- The user should understand that they use this program at their own
- risk, no accepantce is made by the author for loss of data or work. The
- program should only be used ON BACKUPS of files, not on any original work as
- mistakes in its use/running could result in the loss of files. If you are
- unsure about what you are doing then STOP!
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- Operation
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- The program can be run by double clicking on it in the usual way. It is
- single tasking and takes over the computer. Then just follow the on screen
- instructions.
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- Split was designed to break down a large file into smaller peices on
- floppy disc. It was originaly written to allow a 9Mb Acorn Replay file (Star
- Trak -the next generation (Hello to all you Trekers!)) to be copied onto
- numerous floppy disc's (12 in all!) and given to fellow users to put on
- their machines.
- This can be done using another program I wrote at the time
- called !Join which will reconstruct the original file from the parts on
- floppy disc.
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- Spliter works by first asking for the amount to store on each disc (800
- or 1600k are the most popular sizes) it will then procide to copy chuncks of
- the source file (eg. the 9Mb replay file) onto disc and requesting you to
- insert fresh discs when full.
- After the copy is complete each disc will have a data file called
- Part_xxx on it where xxx is the number of that file (1-999). The program
- will also ask before the copying starts whether you wish to change the
- disc's title to Part_xxx for easy reference.
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- Things to look out for
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- The program will not create a file on the floppy disc exactly the
- required size but within 8K.
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- eg. when copying to an 800K disc (800K file size entered) the resulting file
- will be 788K leaving 12K free on this disc.
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- This can be usefull though, as it allows you to leave a text file
- reminding you what the original flie is and the !Split & !Join programs on
- the first disc.
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- The program expects that only formatted discs are used with no other file on
- them ie. completely empty.
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- When asked to insert a disc do not press space with no disc in the drive.
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- If either of these two mistakes are made the program will quit and close ALL
- open files , you will than have to start again.
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