Re: PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

[khym@wixer.cactus.org (Dave Huang)]

BTW... please try to keep non-binary postings out of
comp.binaries.apple2. Thanks..


In article <567.62.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp> brandon.lacava@uttsbbs.uucp (Brandon Lacava)  writes:
>Ok, people have been mailing me asking, "What does EFDU do?" Well,
>here's the answer. EFDU will break up ProDOS files into smaller segments
>of any size you wish for xfer via UNIX mail or message bases. It will
>break up files of ANY type and will create segemnts of ANY size (in
>multiples of 1024 bytes). It will also re-combine broken up files into
>one file. It saves you the trouble of doing it by hand. Take 5 minutes
>and capture it and check it out...

Unfortunately, the multiple of 1024 byte restriction makes EFDU either
rather useless, or at least a real pain to use... Postings to
news/mail should be split along lines, and not in the middle of a
line. Also, BinSCII files are already segmented, and should not be
split any further. It was a real pain to have to edit your posting of
EFDU into a real BinSCII file, since I normally just pipe all of the
articles into sciibin from within my newsreader. I suppose EFDU would
be useful for breaking a very large file to fit on floppy disks, it
is definately not for uuencoded or BinSCII'd postings/mailings.
--
Dave Huang
khym@wixer.cactus.org