Slice & Splice
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About Slice&Splice.
Slice&Splice is a utility for Windows PCs to allow the splitting of
large files (over one megabyte) into smaller sections, the program can then
rejoin the files at a later date. An obvious use is to save a large AVI file
onto several CDRs or Zips.
How to Install Slice&Splice.
Just unzip s-and-s.zip and copy the program 'Slice&Splice.exe' to your
hard disk (or floppy), preferably in its own folder, you may want to put this
help file in the same location. You can then create a short-cut to
Slice&Splice and drag it to convenient location.
Splitting files with Slice&Splice.
When first run, the program is in the 'Slice mode'.
- Click on 'Open File' and select the file to split.
- Click on 'Select Destination' and select where you want to save the slices.
- You can choose to save the slices to the same location or different
locations on the 'Slice Destination Options' Panel.
- You can now select what size each slice should be with the 'Section Size'
controls.
- Press 'Calculate' to check if the files will fit the destination location.
- Press 'Start' to begin.
- Each slice will be named the same as the original with a numeric extension,
starting at 000.
- e.g. if your file is called Birthday.avi, the first slice will be named
Birthday.000 and so on.
Joining your files back together.
- Press the 'Splice' button or select 'Splice' in the menu.
- Click on 'Open File' and select the file to splice.
- The file must have been created with Slice&Splice and must have the 000
extension.
- Click on 'Select Destination' and select where you want to save the
complete file.
- Press 'Start' to begin.
- The program will warn you if there is insufficient space.
- The program will prompt you to change disk or location when required.
Important notes
This is a beta version, Slice&Splice has only been tested on PCs running
Win98 SE, it has NOT been tested on Win2000, Win NT or Win ME
Please backup your data before using this program.
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