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- Chopper v1.0
- ------------
- (c) 1993 Alternate Image
-
- 111-F Wellesley Crescent
- London, Ontario, Canada, N5V 1J6
-
- BBS: (519)457-6855
- FIDO-NET NODE: 1:221/120
-
- Programmed by: John Hickson & Jon Loyens
-
- Purpose
- -------
- CHOPPER was a program designed to allow the transfer of large files
- between hard drives and across platforms. By allowing the user to select
- any path name with a disk changing option, large files may easily be
- split onto floppy drives, tape drives, etc.With the addition of the size
- option any size device may be used to its full capacity.
-
- Registration
- ------------
- CHOPPER is hereby declared as SHAREWARE. If you use this program, we
- would like you to send $10 (Canadian) to the address listed above. You
- may contact us for special rates for user groups by mailing a letter or phoning the BBS number listed above. Registered user will receive a
- diskette with the latest version as it becomes available.
-
- Usage
- -----
- CHOPPER can be used from either the command line or from the full
- intuition interface.
-
- CHOPPER.EXE is the MS-DOS version of the progam, which can only be
- used through the command line at this time.
-
-
- Usage from the Command Line:
- ----------------------------
-
- Usage to CHOP file:
-
- CHOPPER [+C] [+R] [+D0] [+D1] S=# <input-file> <output-file>
-
-
- Usage to JOIN file:
-
- CHOPPER [+C] [+R] [+D0] [+D1] +J <input-file> <output-file>
-
-
- OPTIONS:
-
- +C ... This option is used to prompt the user for disk changes.
-
- +R ... This option is used to read/write the split files to/from
- the RAM: directory.
-
- +D0 ... This option is used to read/write the split files to/from
- the DF0: directory. This forces a +C to the options.
-
- +D1 ... This option is used to read/write the split files to/from
- the DF1: directory. This forces a +C to the options.
-
- S=# ... This option is used so the user may specify the size of the
- split files created (in kilobytes).
-
- +J ... This option is used to join the split files back together.
-
-
- FILES:
-
- <input-file> : The full name of the file to split or the prefix
- name of the files to join.
-
- <output-file> : The prefix name of the split file to create or the
- full name of the joined file.
-
-
- EXAMPLES FROM SHELL:
-
- 1) To split a file onto the standard devices DF0: and DF1:
-
- CHOPPER +D0 +D1 S=800 Big.Anim SplitAnim
-
- 2) To split a file from one directory to another:
-
- CHOPPER S=800 hd0:Big.Anim dh1:SplitAnim
-
- 3) To rejoin a file from RAM: to the current directory.
-
- CHOPPER +R +J SplitAnim Big.Anim
-
-
- Usage from the Intuition Interface:
- -----------------------------------
- The intuition interface consists of a movable window containing two
- string fields, one integer field, five checkbox gadgets and three butons.
-
- The two string fields are for the input file and output file. You may
- use the standard file requester to join these by clicking on the InFile
- and OutFile buttons, respectively. Make sure that when joining files back
- together the name does not include the '.#' suffix.
-
- The integer gadget is labelled 'Size' and it used to set the size of
- the output split file in # of bytes. This field is ignored when joining
- files.
-
- The following checkbox gadgets are used as follows:
-
- RAM: - When activated chopper will send it's output to the RAM:
- device (Same as the .
-
- DF0: - When activated chopper will send it's output to DF0:.
- Note: this function will force Disk Prompt to be active.
-
- DF1: - When activated chopper will send it's ouput to DF1:.
-
- If both DF0: and DF1: are activated chopper will use both as output
- devices.
-
- Disk Prompt - When activated this gadget will enable the prompts for
- disks when Chopper starts a new file. This allows the
- use of removable media devices as well as floppies,
- ram, and hard drives.
-
- Join - Will take a pattern from the InFile string and join the
- associated files back into one.
-
-
- Spliting and Joining files are done in much the same as they are from
- the command line. When all options have been selected and fields are set
- to the desired attributes, click on the GO TO IT! Gadget to send CHOPPER
- to work. Chopper's Title bar will change to "Working..." and the InFile
- and OutFile fields will be ghosted. Everything will return to normal when
- CHOPPER has finished.
-