SplitData v0.3ß
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                ©1995/96 Bugada Andrea (Bugman/Bitless)
                      Written using Amiga E v2.1b
             This program is FREEWARE. No warranty is given


INTRODUCTION
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 Did you ever face the problem to get crunched data from a  non-dos-disk?  If
 yes you probably could have used COMDEC by Turbo/Infect. But is not uptodate
 and it lacks in some crunched formats: eg. PP20, which is  powerpacker-data.
 With  PP20  you  can NOT determine how long the crunched data really is from
 the  data  itself,  which  is  very  important  to  depack.  Then  there  is
 ExtractData,  a  good  program,  but  the  search  string  is  limited  to 4
 characters and is not case sensitive. So I've created SplitData.

 Here comes it up to SplitData: make up a big file of the non-dosk-disk using
 a disk/file-monitor like FIMO. and enter in a Shell:

                         SplitData FILE DEST KWORD

 FILE  You must enter the name of a bigfile created, for example, with  FIMO;
       this file can be also a normal file (very useful with demos).

 DEST  Enter the path where you want the program save every chunk of data.

 KWORD Enter  the  checkmark  string  (like PP20 for powerpacked files). Note
       that this string may be long as you want  and  it's case sensitive. So
       PP20 will be different from Pp20!!


 Every  chunk of data from the file 'disk1' beginning with PP20 and ending at
 the following PP20 will be output to a not determined number of files in the
 destination path as "nn.string" (e.g. 01.PP20, 02.PP20 and so on). Of course
 there are still some uncertainties about the datasize but it helps,  besides
 all  other  crunched  data than PP20 are insensible about their filesize for
 decrunching purposes...


WARNINGS
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 - You  probably  will  get a lot of DUMMY files which is no crunched data at
   all, it might just start with the checkmark, use your BRAIN!

 - No overwrite check on output is done!

 - I take no responsability for any damages from this small piece of code.

 - I've used for this doc some parts  of  the  documentation  of  ExtracData,
   because I  don't  know  very  well english.  All  respect to the author of
   ExtractData (Marley of Infect?).  If you find mistakes please correct them
   and send me the doc.


AUTHOR
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 If you want to contact me (bugs, fuckings, donations ;-) please write to:

           Bugada Andrea
           Via IV Novembre 86
           13060 Lessona (BIELLA)
           ITALY

           e-mail: s89298@athena.polito.it


HISTORY
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 v0.1ß   First public release.

 v0.2ß   Some bugs removed. Checkmark is now case sensitive

 v0.3ß   Now accepts standard arguments. Some bugs removed.



                                           See ya!  Bugman/Bitless