Copyright: Copyright © 1996 by Diego Barros


About

Splitz.

File splitting and joining utility for Microsoft Windows.

Version 1.0.

Copyright © 1996 by Diego Barros.

Any comments, questions or suggestions you might have or if there are any features which you might like to see in the program please let me know. Bug reports are of course very welcome! :)

I can be reached at:

email > alien@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au


Contents
Splitz. v1.0.

Contents

Overview

Splitting a File

Joining Files

License Agreement

About


Joining Files

To join files follow these steps:

- Enter the input filename in the Input File(s) field.

- A drive and/or directory may be specified.

- You can click on the folder button next to the Input File(s) field to select a file from any location.

- Not extension is required for the filename. The extension is assumed to be .001 for the first file.

- If you specify an extension it must be .001 as the first file to join.

- Optionally enter a filename in the Output File(s) field.

- A drive and/or directory may be specified.

- You can click on the folder button next to the Output File(s) field to select a file from any location.

- If you do not enter an output filename then the input filename will be used with no extension as the resulting filename.

- The output file's destination directory is the same as the input file's if no path is specified.

- Click on the Join button to start.

- All files with the one starting with the .001 extension will be joined in order.

- The result will be the output file being created.

- The destination is checked to see if there is enough disk space for the join to be successful if all the files are accessible by being on the one disk. This is not the case when joining from multiple floppy disks. If you get an error when joining with floppy disks it is most likely that the destination floppy does not have enough free space.

- If joining files from a floppy disk then you will be prompted to enter another disk when the last file on the particular disk is read. If it is not the last file to be joined then insert the disk with the next file and select 'Yes'. If all files have been joined then select 'Cancel' and the join will be stopped. The resulting joined file will be at the destination.


Lincense Agrrement
License Agreement

This program is Freeware. You can copy it as many times as you like. Give it to anyone as long as all the files in the distribution are included and no changes are made to any files.

The files which should be included are:

SPLITZ.EXE	The program.

SPLITZ.HLP	Help file.

README.TXT	Installation and program information.

The files may be distributed as originally, that being an archive ZIP file. Or the 3 above files in an archive file format of any other archiving program.

The following terms and conditions are basically most of the ones from the GNU License Agreement document. The section included here is as it appears in the original, with a few sections not applicable to this license removed.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This program is WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

NO WARRANTY

Because the program is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the program "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will any copyright holder be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS


Overview

Splitz is a utility program used to split and join files.

Files can be split into parts of a size which you specify. The resulting files are numbered as <inputfile>.001, <inputfile>.002, <inputfile>.003 an so on.

Joining files is just as easy as splitting. Simply specify the filename of the first file and they all will be joined into one file.

At any time a split or join operation may be stopped by clicking on the Stop button.

Input and output filenames may be entered in their appropriate fields. Or click on the folder button next to each field to locate a file at another location.

The input filename extension for a join operation does not have to be specified since <filename>.001 is assumed.

The output filename for a split operation does not have to be specified. In that case the filename of the input file is used and each of the .001, .002, .003 etc. extensions is given. You can also specify an output filename for the split operation if you wish, but is not necessary.

Files may be split to or joined form a floppy disk.

The progress bar shows the stage of the current split or join operation being performed.

The status bar displays any error messages. If a filename is incorrect or the split size specified is incorrect then an error message will be shown and the appropriate field highlighted and selected to allow you to change it.

Specifying a split size which would result in more than 20 output files being created will result in a prompt being displayed to verify that you wish to continue with the split. A file may be split at most into 999 parts. If the split size specified would result in more than 999 files being created then an error message will inform you of this. Then again, I wonder why you would want more than 999 split files! :)


Splitting a File

To split a file follow these steps:

- Enter a filename in the Input File(s) field.

- A drive and/or directory may be specified.

- You can click on the folder button next to the Input File(s) field to select a file from any location.

- Optionally enter a filename in the Output File(s) field.

- A drive and/or directory may be specified.

- You can click on the folder button next to the Output File(s) field to select a file from any location.

- If you do not enter an output filename then the input filename will be used with the .001, .002, .003 etc. extensions added to the input filename.

- No extension is required if you choose to enter an output filename.

- If you enter an extension for the output filename then it will be ignored.

- If no path is specified for the output file then it will be saved to the same location from which the input file comes from.

- Specify the size of the resulting split files in the Split File Size combobox.

- The split size must be less than the input file's size.

- The split size must be greater than 0.

- You may select one of the 4 included selections in the combobox. They will result in a split size corresponding to the exact size of a 3.5" high-density or low-density or a 5.25" high-density or low-density floppy disk.

- If you specify a split size which would result in more than 20 files created then a prompt will ask to verify that you wish to continue or stop to allow you to change the split file size value.

- The maximum number of split files that can be created is 999. If you specify a split size which would result in more than 999 files created then an error message will be shown. You must then specify another split size so the resulting number of files created will be 999 or less.

- Click on the Split button to start.

- The resulting files will be of the size specified. The last file might be less than the specified split size if it does not split evenly.

- The destination is checked to make sure there is enough disk space for the splitting to be successful.

- Files may be split onto a floppy disk. If there is not enough disk space for a resulting output file then you will be prompted to enter another disk and continue with the split operation.