[fpc-pascal]Writing a file splitter for very large files.

[James Mills]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:51:19PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to write a method to split very large files (8Gb and up) into
> chunks which can later be concatenated back into the orriginal.
> 
> The chunks would need to CD-Size (e.g. around 630MB's). 
> 
> How could I handle this ?
> Does FPC support opening files that size ?
> If I were to open the file, then read and copy through byte by byte,
> would that work ? 

I'm not 100% sure on this one, others would probably help you more.
However I"m sure you can simply open the file with a standard file
handle, and then read byte by byte, reading 630Mbytes then writing this
out to another file.

cheers
James

> 
> I have some theories, but no conclusive ideas on how to implement this.
> The files in question are uncompressed tarballs. I tried compressing
> them but both bzip2 and gzip choked out. This happens whether I use the
> compressions switches to tar (when creating them) or afterwards on the
> final file.
> 
> Any help, greatly appreciated.
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> A.J. Venter
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> 
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