From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Spliting files
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:05:32 GMT

-From ts@uwasa.fi Sun Nov 22 09:02:40 1992
-Subject: Re: splitfil.zip
-To: gregs@wpi.WPI.EDU (Gregory John Snyder)
-Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:02:40 +0200 (EET)
-Cc: msdos-ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil (Combined SIMTEL20 & Garbo announcements)

> File name: SPLITFIL.ZIP
> One line description: TP6.0 Program that splits MSDOS files into chunks
> Replaces: N/A
> Suggested directory: ?
> Uploader name & email: Greg Snyder (gregs@wpi.wpi.edu)
> Author or company: Greg Snyder
> Email address: gregs@wpi.wpi.edu
> Surface address: -
> Special requirements: none
> Shareware payment required from private users: none
> Shareware payment required from corporates: none
> Demo: no
> Nagware: no
> Self-documenting: yes
> External documentation included: no
> Source included: yes
> Size: 11824
> 10 lines description:
> 	Splits files into chunks of variable size and writes them to disk.
>

Excellent.  Thank you for your contribution Greg.  This upload is
now available as
 12112 Nov 21 13:41 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/fileutil/splitfil.zip

I have a couple of comments, since I have written a split program
also myself (the reference included).

1) I very much welcome the alternatives to achieve the same tasks.
2) Greg's comes with Turbo Pascal sources.  An important plus.
3) If the base name is over 5 characters long and the switshes are
   not used correctly, all but the last chuck are overwritten. Greg
   might wish to look into this dilemma.
4) In the TP programming we have both utilized BlockRead.  This is
   important, because else the programs are too slow for large
   files.

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlc18.zip Third set of Utilities, T.Salmi
Filename        Comment                             Date      Time
--------        --------------------------------    ----      ----
DIRF.EXE        Directory in full, recursive      10-31-92  20:29:30
DIRINFO.EXE     Directory information of a disk   12-07-91  06:33:28
DOUBLES.EXE     Find double file names on a disk  12-07-91  07:06:10
DTEDIF.EXE      Difference between two dates      07-02-89  13:12:10
FILE_ID.DIZ     Brief characterization of TSUTLC  10-29-92  08:36:54
HIDDEN.EXE      Find all hidden files on disk     12-07-91  07:35:38
READONLY.EXE    Find all readonly files on disk   12-07-91  07:37:34
SPLIT.EXE       Split a file into pieces          12-07-91  07:41:34
TSPROG.INF      List of PD programs from T.Salmi  09-27-92  10:14:38
TSUTLC.INF      Document                          11-01-92  08:14:18
TSUTLC.NWS      News announcements about tsutlc   11-01-92  08:08:44
VAASA.INF       Info: Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa  08-05-92  11:12:44
WHATDATE.EXE    Date +- number of days from now   07-02-89  09:23:08
ZEROFILE.EXE    Find all empty files on disk      12-07-91  07:52:02
----            ------             ------  -----
0014            91799 Nov 1 10:14 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlc18.zip

   All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland