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BIG2SMAL PROGRAM NOTES
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Consider the following situations:
- Downloading a lengthy message thread
and finding out that the resulting
file is too long to edit with your
favorite text processor.
- Receiving an ASCII file in the mail
of a size greater than 200K from a
vendor.
- A LAN print server that cannot process
files greater than 64K.
Dealing with this through a number of different
techniques, I finally wrote BIG2SMAL.COM. The
concept is simple: using brute force, just "whack"
the file into a number of smaller files of a size
less than or equal to 32K (of course, leaving the
original file undisturbed).
BIG2SMAL uses a extension naming scheme, for example:
CHP21-25.TXT (209657 bytes long)
will cause the following to happen
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.0 of length 32000
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.1 of length 32000
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.2 of length 32000
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.3 of length 32000
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.4 of length 32000
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.5 of length 32000
BIG2SMAL: Creating chp21-25.6 of length 17657
Note that after browsing and editing these files, they can
be recombined by using the copy file1 + file2 command.
To get things started, a complete file specification must
be provided in the command tail. Also type BIG2SMAL for
a summary of the command line interface.
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