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- Some usage tips for SPLIT:
-
- o To split a very large file onto several floppies with varying amounts
- of space available on each floppy, use the (F) option (number of files)
- and ask to split the big file into -ONE- file. As soon as a floppy is
- full, the program will end the current output file and request another
- disk. Each disk's usable space will be exactly filled. The output files
- will be different sizes unless the floppies were all empty, but when the
- files are re-united, the entire original file will be there and the crc
- will verify properly.
-
- o To give the output files the same basename (filename root) as the
- original file, use a dot "." as the output file basename.
-
- Eg: "split BIG.FIL . f 3 n"
-
- Splits BIG.FIL into 3 files named BIG.001, BIG.002, and BIG.003
-
- For same output basename in another directory, use any valid directory
- name for the second command parameter: ".." puts output files with the
- original basename in the parent directory, or "d:\dir\" puts files with
- the same basename into another disk\directory. (These shortcuts work
- only with versions of SPLIT above v5.17).
-
- o Use the (B) option to remove the EOF marker or any number of bytes from
- the end of an existing file. If you want to remove the last 5 bytes
- from a BIGFILE of 123,456 bytes, you would specify 123,451 (B)ytes per
- output file. OUTFIL.001 will have the desired 123,451 bytes and the
- smaller OUTFIL.002 will have 5 bytes. OUTFIL.001 can be renamed as
- desired and OUTFIL.002 is erased.
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