The main reason for people to split one big file into smaller files are to share files over the internet.
Most free mailboxes like Windows Live Hotmail and YahooMail, they got a limit size for attachment files. What if you got a huge file and you wanna e-mail it? You got to make it smaller than the maximum allowed size.
To share a file larger than the maximum size allowed by the mailbox provider, you can upload the file to a file host like rapidshare, and e-mail the download link to your contact. What if the file is so big, like Gigabytes of 'em? It could take forever to upload and download it.
So, an easier way, is to split the file into smaller parts of it. Ten 100MB files are easier to upload/download than a 1GB file. And don't expect a file host would host your 4GB dvd-image as a single file(unless you're using a paid host).
So, how do you split it?
By using file splitter of course!
HJSplit is a freeware, multi-platform file splitter.
No installation is required, you just have to run the executable file inside the download. The whole program is as small as 300KB only. After you split the file, the smaller parts will have a file extension of file.001 file.002 file.003 and so on.
When joining up, you will need HJSplit too. The best way for sharing huge file, is to split them up into small files, and send out these small fragments, while you can also include the HJSplit client inside your files to your recipent. These files can also be joined using a 7-Zip archiever or WinRAR(may not work all the time).
You can download the HJSplit from the developers' site
External Links:
HJSplit from CNET Download.com
HJSplit from PC World
HJSplit from Softpedia
Search for HJSplit from Google
2 comments:
winrar also can split files
I was going to post WinRAR, but WinRAR isn't a freeware. So I went and find another file splitter, and found out this HJSplit is a freeware, and have a nice file splitting and joining speed.
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