.\" 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).