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- SLICE (and SPLICE)
- Command
-
- Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes
- 1989 No. 9 (Utilities)
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-
- 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:
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- Format: d:\SPLICE s: [t:][path]
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- SLICE.COM, its source code file, SLICE.ASM, and SLICE.BAS, a program
- that will automatically generate SLICE.COM when run once in BASIC, are available
- for downloading by modem from PC MagNet (see the "SLICE by Modem" sidebar).
-