Q: How do I install Chainsaw?
A: Simply copy chainsaw.exe and chainsaw.exe.manifest into a
directory of your choice
Q: How do I uninstall Chainsaw?
A: Delete chainsaw.exe and chainsaw.exe.manifest
Q: On which versions of Windows does Chainsaw run?
A: I tested it on Windows2000 and WinXP.
Q:When I run Chainsaw I get the message that MFC71.dll is missing.
A: That DLL is from Microsoft. You can download that DLL from my website too
Click to download
Install it in C:\WINDOWS\System32.
Q: How do I split a file with Chainsaw?
A: Adjust the settings on the control panel and then drag and drop the file
onto the
big Chainsaw button. Chainsaw will split the file into a number of .chunk
files plus a .bat file.
Each .chunk file is just a piece of the original file. Chainsaw
does not use a special file format for these. Also the original file is never
modified.
Example:
Myfile will be split into
Myfile.chunk1, Myfile.chunk2, Myfile.chunk3... plus myfile_Merge.bat
Q: How do I put the chunks together again?
A: You don't need Chainsaw to put the chunks together again.
Copy all the .chunk files and the .bat file into
the destination directory.
Make sure that there is enough space for the original file. Then run the .bat
file.
The .chunk files are merged.
The .chunk files are automatically deleted. If you need to keep them,
you'll have to save them at a different location before you run the .bat
file.
Note: on some Win95 configurations you cannot merge the files on the desktop.
Use any other directory instead.
Q: The .bat file fails. What can I do?
A: Modify the .bat file by inserting a "pause" command after each line.
Then run the .bat file in a command window (DOS-Box).
The .bat file now runs interactively. In most cases if something goes
wrong, you will get an error message. The .bat file is straightforward
and often problems can be solved by editing it.
Q: What is the maximum input file size?
A: Theoretically the filesize is 2 64 Bytes ( = 1GB times 1 GB times
16)
However this is impractial. The largest known processed file was 11GB huge. I
cannot guarantee
a file size beyond that. If you reach the limit, tell me.
Q: Can I abort a file splitting while it is running?
A: Yes any time by clicking on the Close button.
Q: Can Chainsaw be run as a command line tool?
A: If you supply parameters to chainsaw, it runs in silent mode without the
dialog box. Thus you may use it in batch processing.
Errors will be reported by a message box.
The command line format is: chainsaw file [ -c chunksize] [-d destpath]
| file: | the file to split. Must be the first parameter. |
| chunksize: |
size as integer with dimension which can be KB, MB or GB, for example 500KB. Decimals will be ignored. Instead of 1.4MB write 1400KB. The default is 1MB. |
| destpath: | output path |