| .\" Public Domain 1994 Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| .TH DSPLIT 1 "5 July 1994" "Linux 1.1" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| dsplit \- split a large file into pieces |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .BI "dsplit [ \-size " nnn " ] [ " input_file " [ " output_base " ] ]" |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B dsplit |
| splits binary files into smaller chunks so that they may be placed on |
| floppy disks. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .BI \-size " nnn" |
| Specifies the size of each output file, in bytes. The default is 1457000, |
| which is enough to will a 1.44 MB floppy disk. |
| .TP |
| .I input_file |
| Specifies the name of the file to split up. A \- indicates standard input. |
| The default is standard input. |
| .TP |
| .I output_base |
| Specifies the name of the output files to be written. |
| .B dsplit |
| will append 000, 001, ..., to the |
| .IR output_base . |
| The default is "dsplit". |
| .SH "AUTHOR'S NOTES" |
| Submitted-by: arnstein@netcom.com (David Arnstein) |
| .br |
| Posting-number: Volume 40, Issue 51 |
| .br |
| Archive-name: dsplit/part01 |
| .br |
| Environment: MS-DOS, UNIX |
| .PP |
| Here is a portable binary file splitting program. It reads a binary file |
| and splits it into pieces. I use this program to put large binary files on |
| floppy disks. For this reason, the default size of the output files is |
| 1,457,000 bytes, which just about fills up a 1.44 MB floppy disk. |
| .PP |
| Unlike other binary split programs I have seen, dsplit does not malloc a |
| huge block of memory. Dsplit is suitable for use under MSDOS and other |
| primitive operating systems. |
| .PP |
| (The program came from |
| gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit). |
