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- SLICE (and SPLICE)
- Command
-
- Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes
- 1989 No. 9 (Utilities)
-
-
- Purpose: Spreads a DOS file too large to be copied onto a single floppy disk
- across multiple diskettes, enabling the file to be restored onto a second
- machine.
-
- Format: SLICE [d:][path]filename[.ext] d:
-
- Remarks: The filename of the file to be divided may be preceded with a drive
- and/or path, if needed. The d: 20target drive may be any drive that DOS
- recognizes as a removable medium. Diskettes from 160KB to 1.44MB capacity may
- be used, as may disk cartridges whose device driver identifies them as
- employing a removable medium.
-
- As each target diskette becomes filled, the user is prompted to insert a fresh
- one; up to 99 formatted target disks may be accommodated. On the first of
- these, SLICE also creates a short (approximately 1KB) program, SPLICE.COM,
- which is subsequently used to reassemble the separate sections into which
- filename has been broken. The syntax for SPLICE.COM is:
-
- Format: d:\SPLICE s: [t:][path] [/R]
-
- Remarks: The d: parameter designates the drive on which SPLICE.COM has been
- written, and s: designates the source drive. Normally, these are the same.
- The optional t: and path identify the hard disk/path onto which the file is to
- be reassembled as single entity. If these latter parameters are unspecified,
- the default drive and directory will be used for restoration. The original
- filename cannot be changed in either the SLICE or SPLICE operations, each of
- which requires approximately 34KB of available memory. The optional /R
- parameter tells the program to disable the check for removeable media. If you
- receive an error message saying, "Must be removeable media," you can try
- running SPLICE with the /R parameter. This is useful when the device driver
- for a drive does not support the IOCTL requesting removeable status.
-
- Note: Although the DOS BACKUP and RESTORE utilities also permit a single file
- to be divided among multiple disks, they require that the same version of DOS
- be present on both the originating and the receiving machines.
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