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Breakup.exe
By Jem Miller
Users guide
What is it?
Well, it's a utility that will take any size text file, formatted or
not, and break the file into smaller parts that you can view with your
favorite text editor.
Since most text editors now days will only load 64k files at the
largest, Breakup.exe will allow you to take those big .DOC files and
make several smaller files out of them.
What will it do?
It will create several (user selectable) files called out1, out2,
out3, etc. up to out65535. These files each contain the number of
pages that you specified when the program was run. It ALWAYS uses the
same filenames, so you will need to rename or copy the out* files to a
different filename before you run Breakup again. Otherwise Breakup
will over write the existing files each time it runs.
What won't it do?
It won't do windows, make coffee, provide hours of fun, or improve
mental capacity. It also won't work with .EXE, .COM files, or most
data files. It is intended for TEXT files only.
Does it have a warranty?
NO! Absolutely NOT! I don't warrant this thing to do anything except
eat up disk space on your system. Use it at your own risk. If
Breakup.exe blows up ANY files or equipment, remember that you were
warned. Breakup.exe was severely tested for about ten minutes before I
shipped it out. Don't expect sympathy if it goes south.
Using Breakup.Exe:
Place Breakup in one of the directories in your path, so that DOS can
find it from whatever drive or directory you're in.
Any time you want to break up a big text file just type in breakup at
the DOS prompt.
You'll be prompted for the filename to break apart. You can type in
the path and filename, BUT the out* files will be created in the CURRENT
logged directory, not in the path that you typed. For this reason, I
suggest that you use Breakup from the same directory as the file is found.
If Breakup can't find the file you typed, it will issue an error
message and let you re-type the filename.
Next you need to tell Breakup how many pages per file that you want in
the OUT* files. This is kind of tricky, because of the different line
lengths in different files. Breakup defaults to 100 pages if you just
press enter, but that's to big for most editors. A close way to calculate
the file sizes is listed below.
Pages Average File Size
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25 55 - 63k
50 102 - 130k
100 230 - 293k
As you can see, the sizes vary greatly depending on the line lengths
in the text file. Most files have an average line length of about 53
characters, but that's not a rule to follow.
Breakup will look for Form Feed characters as it works, so if you are
running it on a formatted ASCII text file, it should work fine. It will
break each page at line 60 if no form feed is found before that. Since
most word processors use 55 to 58 lines per page, 60 lines is a pretty
safe bet. If form feeds come after the 60th line per page, you'll get a
really strange looking file.
That's all there is to running the thing, no secrets, no magic, and
no on-line help.
System requirements:
1> You need a computer to use this program.
2> It needs to be IBM compatible.
3> It needs to be running IBM PCDOS or MsDOS 1.1 or higher.
4> It needs at least 14k free.
Breakup is hereby released to the public domain. You may use it, give
it away, burn it, or throw darts at it. You can NOT sell this software!
You may charge a copying fee for a diskette, or phone charges for
distributing this file by electronic means. All reproductions of
Breakup.Exe should include this .DOC file.
Donations are always cheerfuly accepted (as are developement contracts)!
Any Comments (or money) should be addressed to:
OCS Software
4601 N.W. 32st.
Oklahoma City, Ok. 73122
ATTN: Jem Miller
DATA Phone : 405-946-3675 6 pm. - 7:45 am. Mon-Fri & 24hrs weekends
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