Picture a scenario... You've spent a substantial part of the day down-loading the latest, fastest, bestest shoot-em-up game demo. And of course, you're not stupid, so you did this at work using the fast company internet connection. But you wouldn't dare actually play the thing at work, far too risky, you don't want to get fired after all. But it's 56 MB, and the only way to get it home is to copy it onto 41 floppy disks. Oh well. You spend eons zipping it onto a huge pile of floppies and eagerly take them home. You start unpacking them. It takes an age, but you're so looking forward to the game. All is going fine, but then disaster strikes - the fortieth floppy is duff. You can't read from it. You realise, with mounting dismay, that you'll have to create the whole zip set again. All 41 floppies of it. Unlikely? A tall story you think? Well it happened to me. Really, it did. Enter Slice'n'Splice. It slices huge files into floppy (or any other) size chunks, and then splices them back together again. Each chunk can be copied to a floppy independently of the rest. Once you have all the chunks where you want them, simply run Slice'n'Splice again (or run the optionally generated MS-DOS .BAT file) to splice the chunks back into the original file. If a floppy fails and a chunk is corrupted, then first of all Slice'n'Splice will detect this and warn you about it, and secondly, you only need to recopy that one bad chunk. Not the whole set. You can even create a shortcut to Slice'n'Splice in the SendTo directory. Then simply right-click on a file, select Send To from the pop-up menu, then select Slice'n'Splice. Easy.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 3.0 posted on 2012-01-24
Released as Freeware - Version 2.2 posted on 2003-11-24
Added ability to slice to, and splice from, removable drives.
Program Details
- Category: System Utilities > File & Disk Management
- Publisher: SadMan Software
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 3.0
- Platform: windows
EULA
RIGHTS : Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the Software shall remain in Simon Armstrong. The Software is protected by the copyright laws of the United Kingdom and international copyright treaties. This License gives you no rights to such content. DISCLAIMER: This code should be used at your own risk. The Software is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Software is borne by you. Should the Software prove defective, you and not Simon Armstrong assume the entire cost of any service and repair. In addition, you must determine that the Software sufficiently meets your requirements. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an essential part of the agreement. DISTRIBUTION : You are permitted to distribute this software by any means provided only the unmodified zip file is distributed. LIMITATIONS: LIABILITY -- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL SIMON ARMSTRONG OR HIS SUPPLIERS OR RESELLERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES. IN NO EVENT WILL SIMON ARMSTRONG BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF SIMON ARMSTRONG'S LIST PRICE FOR A LICENSE TO THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF SIMON ARMSTRONG SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION.