Seeking: CD & DVD burner program that will "split" huge files acrossmultiple disks...

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Gary R. Schmidt

Hi all & sun-dried,

I'm looking for a Windows CD & DVD burner program that will split a
single file across multiple disks.

I'm not talking about throwing ten 2Gb files across five DVDs, what I
want to do is auto-split a 10Gb file across five DVDs.

Yes, I could write a program that chops the bigfile up, but that doubles
the disk space requirement.

Any pointers? I've looked at PWH, but nothing screamed "I do that".

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Gary said:
I'm looking for a Windows CD & DVD burner program that will split a
single file across multiple disks.
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You're looking in the wrong place. Why should a burner prog do this job for
you? And when the job is done, how are you supposed to remerge or read the
split files?

The way I see it you have two alternatives: 1) Specialized file splitting
software (which I have no experience with, but others might) and 2) archive
managers. The latter comes in many flavors, colors and shapes, and most of
these also support some sort of file splitting. A lot of them can even
create executable files, meaning that whenever you need to merge the split
files regardless of what other software you have installed.

Which archiver you like is of course a matter of preference, but personally
I like TugZip (http://www.tugzip.com/). No matter which program you use,
make sure you use a format that supports spanning, such as zip, rar or cab.
 
André Gulliksen said:
You're looking in the wrong place. Why should a burner prog do this job for
you? And when the job is done, how are you supposed to remerge or read the
split files?
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Because, as I stated in my initial post: "Yes, I could write a program
that chops the bigfile up, but that doubles the disk space requirement."

Re-merging is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)

Using an arhiver - hadn't thought of that - what one's can handle 64-bit
files?

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Because, as I stated in my initial post: "Yes, I could write a program
that chops the bigfile up, but that doubles the disk space requirement."
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How does file splitting double the required disk space?

Chain Saw will create 650-700 meg files for you.

http://www.schmeusser.siw.de/software/chainsaw.html
Using an arhiver - hadn't thought of that - what one's can handle 64-bit
files?
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Are you working with 64 bit files? There might be another version that
handles them as far as splitting goes.

Or, search "zip64" freeware archivers.
 
REM wrote:
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How does file splitting double the required disk space?
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dadiOH answered that one already :-)
Chain Saw will create 650-700 meg files for you.

http://www.schmeusser.siw.de/software/chainsaw.html
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Says it support input files > 2Gb. I wonder if that means > 4Gb? I'll
suck it and see. Seems to work.
Are you working with 64 bit files? There might be another version that
handles them as far as splitting goes.

Or, search "zip64" freeware archivers.
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Yes, but the whole idea was to do it in one hit, rather than having to
find space and shuffle things around.

If it was a once-in-a-while thing, I'd not be worried, but it looks like
it may be occasional. Might just modify the old "split" source to use
the 64-bit APIs on winders.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
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