Re: AppleWorks 5 Limit

[stevee@onix.com]

Jim.Low@logicbbs.org writes:

 >I would like to know if there is a program to break up large
 >AppleWorks files into smaller chunks.  I created a crude
 >AppleSoft BASIC program to do it, but I have to let it run
 >overnight for large files.

I've written similar programs to manipulate several file types but
have not worked with AWP.  One of my programs splits out up to five
UUENCODEd files from the rest of the ProTERM scrollback, facilitating
use of an email-only ISP which does not support downloading or
off-line mail reading.  If you're not doing it already, running such
code through the Beagle Compiler will reduce run time by perhaps a
factor of three.  Using a RAM disk for both input and output will
probably also help.  However, Applesoft does seem to be amazingly
slow at file I/O where you are repeatedly reading from one file and
writing to another.  Does anyone know of easy to use ampersand
routines to speed these operations?  If not, one of these days I hope
to get the time to teach myself the ProDOS 8 machine language
interface.  As for file split programs, probably someone will
respond who knows their names and FTP locations.  I vaguely recall
looking at one or two and finding them not flexible enough for my
needs.

Steve Eisenberg    Pennsylvania, U.S.A.     stevee@onix.com