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- split for IBM_PC, join for Acorn Archimedes
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- One way of transfering files from the net to the archimedes is to read the
- files from the net with a IBMPC, write them to a msdos-diskette and read them
- diskette on archimedes with tools like !PCDIR or !dosfs.
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- Sometimes files they are too big, to fit on a 720 KB MSDOS-diskette.
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- The normal way is to uuencode them on a IBMPC, and split them with a
- PC-text-editor, transfer them, join them with a Archimedes-text-editor and
- uudecode it.
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- If you have a single-diskette-system, the file is greater 720KB and less 800KB
- but uuencoding will grow the file to a length greater 800 KB, you can't write
- the joined uuencoded file back to your Acorn-Archimedes-diskette.
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- For this Problem you need a program on the IBMPC which splits the binary file,
- and a Archimedes program whichs joins the binary parts to get the orginal file.
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- split.exe (on Archimedes: split_exe (filetype MSDOS)) is the program to
- split a file on IBMPC
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- usage:
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- split number source target
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- This splits the file source into parts of length <= number
- with the names target.aa target.ab .... target.zz
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- e.g. having a file hugo with length 750 KB
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- split 400000 hugo part
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- result in the files
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- part.aa (400 KB long)
- part.ab (350 KB long)
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- join (filetype absolute) is the program to join the parts on Archimedes
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- usage:
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- join targetfile sourcefile1 sourcefile2 .... sourcefileN
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- joins the files sourcefile1, sourcefile2 up to sourcefileN into
- targetfile
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- (e.g. having the parts from the example part_aa and part_ab)
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- join hugo part_aa part_ab
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- results to the orginal file hugo
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- If you start the command from a obeyfile, the program do
- cooperative Wimp-"multitasking", to run the program in background.
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- There is also the same program without multitasking features,
- (joinNoTask) if you have to rmkill wimp-related system-modules.
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- Problems: Cause the programs operates in the "read a byte" - "write a byte"
- mode, they are not very fast ....
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