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- VERY IMPORTANT: `splitmod' is for personal use only.
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- This program (splitmod) is Copyright 1993,1994,1995 by Marc Espie.
- It is forbidden to redistribute files obtained through the use of splitmod
- to other people, and specifically to upload czip'ed files on the net.
- If you want to do that, you'll have to rewrite splitmod from scratch. Reuse
- of code from tracker/splitmod for that purpose is forbidden as well.
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- In short:
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- DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE FILES OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF SPLITMOD ON THE NET !!!
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- WE DON'T NEED YET ANOTHER INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT !!!!
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- Splitmod is a new utility provided for better compression of module
- files.
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- A little while ago, a very nice utility called shorten appeared.
- It seems that shorten regularly beats general compression algorithms
- as far as digitized samples are concerned. Applying it to a raw module
- regularly gives the same or a better compression than lha or zip.
- Actually though, part of a module file is composed of samples, but the
- rest is a genuine score.
- Hence splitmod, which does split a file (say file.lzh) into its score part
- (file.mod) and its sample part (file.mod).
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- Afterwards, just make use of zip and shorten to build a special archive
- (file.czip) holding file.mod (compressed with maximum zip compression rate)
- and shortened file.samp.shn (not compressed at all with zip since it can't
- beat shorten...)
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- The size reduction is usually drastic: between 10 and 30% from usual
- compressed formats !
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- Two short scripts (czip and unczip) are provided. czip takes the output of
- splitmod and builds the czip archive. unczip is the necessary filter to
- be able to replay czip files from tracker.
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- Note that you can still rebuild the original file from the czip archive through
- unczip. DON'T HESITATE TO USE IT BEFORE UPLOADING MOD FILES TO ANY BBS/FTP SITE.
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- The default czip and unczip files are unix sh scripts, though an amiga execute
- version wouldn't be too difficult to build...
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