  1. What the program does, and how to use it.

     The CHOP program "chops" up a file into smaller pieces. Reasons
     might be to fit the pieces on diskettes or to accomodate a text
     editor which is limited in size of files which can be edited.

     The JOIN program is the inverse of CHOP.

     Both programs are self-documenting. Just run them with no
     operands. Or look at comments in source code.

  2. The program's status (Public Domain, FreeWare, ShareWare).

     Public Domain

  3. The program's distribution status (it must be freely distributable).

     May be freely distributed.

  4. How to contact the author in case of questions or problems (mailing
     address and phone number).  If the author has an e-mail address it
     is recommended that it be included.

     Unknown how to contact original author W. J. Kennamer. Author of
     improvements may be reached at

     Edgar W. Swank   <edgar@HighNRG.sbay.org>

This is an update to

chop1292.zip  37626  12-20-92  Chop/join large files ASCII/binary, with C src

from SimTel directory msdos/fileutil and should replace it.

Changes to the previous version include:

1) Although accepting output of the previous version, the format for
chop output file extensions has changed from .1, .2, ...  to .001,
.002, ...  This facilitates sorting into the proper order when more
than ten parts are created.

2) The previous version would just overlay any "duplicate" output
file. The new version detects this condition and prompts whether to
overlay, append, or just stop.  In the case of "chop" appending means
finding the last consecutive .nnn file and starting by creating the
.nnn+1st file and so on.

3) This version adds an option of "Wiping" input files. Wiping is
overlaying the file with random data before deleting it. This is a
security measure which prevents the deleted file from being recovered.
