Split Studio v1.1
Copyright © 2000 by Gian Davide Alfano
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Split Studio v1.1 is a /bin/split-like program with GUI. The previous version was a simply front-end for the /bin/split command.
You can split a file by dragging its icon into the window, by selecting it through the Split Studio Add-on or by selecting it throug the standard FilePanel. You can select the split size (expressed in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes or how many parts you want your file splitted in), the destination directory then split the file... :-)
BeOS R5 or greater for Intel x86.
You can install Split Studio by unzipping the archive wherever you want.
To install the SplitStudio add-on simply drag the file into the "Drag SplitStudio AddOn here!" folder, otherwise copy it (or make a symlink) to /home/config/add-ons/tracker folder.
Once you started you can see this window.
To select the file you want to split click on the Select button, choose it from the FilePanel and click OK; the file name will appear in the File TextControl and its actual size in the Size TextControl.
Now you can choose the split size. You can select 1.44 Mb, 720 Kb or a custom size, in this case the Unit popup menu will be enabled to allow you to select a unit measure (bytes, KB and MB) (note that Split Studio no longer automatically converts size from one unit to another) or how many parts it will be splitted in.
If you want you can select a destination directory by a standard FilePanel. Now you're ready to click on the Go button and your file will be splitted (e.g. if Terminal is splitted in three files these will be Terminal.s1, Terminal.s2 and Terminal.s3).
If you choose the Rebuild mode from the popup menu, you can select a "filepart" that was saved by a previous Splitting operation. If you choose Go, Split Studio will search for the files that compose the original (xxx.s1, xxx.s2, ..., xxx.sn) and try to link them together. If one of them miss the operation will fail.
Split Studio will append some informations to splitted files as attributes. So if you try to rebuild a file that was not saved by Split Studio you'll get an error. More over Split Studio will automatically recognize a Split Studio splitted file if you drag'n'drop its icon and will turn immediately in Rebuild mode!
You can exit from SplitStudio by clicking on the window's close gadget.
You can choose one file to split and select the Split Studio Tracker AddOn (see Requirements & installation) and it will pass its reference to the Split Studio App.
If you select no file Split Studio will start without a file selected.
If you select a splitted file instead you can rebuild the original within Split Studio.
Split Studio will preserve all the attributes and the permissions from the original file :-).
There is currently no remarkable bug.
Split Studio is © by Gian Davide Alfano. All rights reserved. It's released under the GPL, if you make any change to code please keep intact the original copyright disclaimer and let me know what you did.
SplitStudio is freely usable, and freely distributable for non-commercial purposes.
Use Split Studio package at your own risk. The author cannot be held responsible for any damage direct or indirect caused to your system.
If you have any question, suggestion or bug report mail me at:
or visit http://digilander.iol.it/gdalfano where you can download the latest version of my programs :-)
1.0 - First Release
1.1 - Second release
Split Studio as of release 1.1 is quite useful, stable and functional.
I will improve the graphic interface by adding some graphics in the future. (do you know an easy way to retrieve icons from the app resource and create a graphical button with them?)
I would like to thank Rafael Romo for the nice icon I modified, Guido Soranzio (http://digilander.iol.it/beelzebub) and Gianpaolo Mazzoni of BUGIT (BeOS User Group Italiano).