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DeAL!
Disk'em all!
Drag and Drop utility to combine files and folders to 1.4 MB floppy-disks.
The story so far ...
After starting downloading files from the Internet,
I had a lot of files on my small HD and soon ran out of disk-space.
So I put the unused archives on floppy-disks.
Hundreds of files later, I got tired of manually fit them on diskettes.
So the idea of this little application came up.
How does it work?
When you drop a number of files and or folders on DeAL!, they are combined
to folders of the size of a HD-disk (1440000 bytes). The folders are created
in the same directory as the files dropped on DeAL!. If a file is too big to fit on
a disk, it is moved in a folder called "too big!".
The number of files processed is currently limited to 1000 (one thousand).
(Have you ever selected more than a thousand files in the finder?)
Don't worry about dropping more than a thousand files on DeAL!,
the rest above will not be processed and stays where it came from.
Disclaimer
This is a quick and dirty hack, this is also my first C program ever.
Don't worry about your files. (Never listen to someone who tells you Don't worry)
They are just moved in another folder. So there should be no data loss at all.
Use at your own risk!
This is Freeware!
I take no responsibility for any damage caused by this application.
Credits
DeAL! is based on DropShell.
So thanks go out to Leonard Rosenthol, Marshall Clow and Stephan Somogyi.
Also thanks to the people who gave me feedback on DeAL.
Version history
1.0 This is the first release.
FAT-binary. I have no PPC, so the PPC-code is not tested.
Feel free to give me a PPC.
1.0.1 Now you can drop folders on DeAL!
The Icon has also been updated to reflect the new feature.
(You may have to rebuild your desktop to see the new one)
1.0.2 Changed the behaviour of DeAL!
It no longer put files in already existing folders, so that
you no longer get folders > 1.4MB. Instead it will fill up the
existing ones and continues with subsequent new ones.
Changed the disksize to 1447000 bytes.
1.0.3 Changed the disksize back to 1440000 bytes.
Some people had trouble with the new disksize, so I changed it
back to the old value.
Plans
The next versions will include:
- selecting different disksizes (800k, 1.44k, 100MB , custom etc.)
- option for walk folders instead of process folders at a whole
and or only walk folders that are too big.
be warned: this may take a while. It depends on how my Mac programming skills
advance (regarding Dialogs). At this moment at time, it's easier for me to
compile versions for different sizes.
Maybe someone can help me out on this.
This is Freeware! There are no fees for using this software.
But if you are a shareware author, feel free to give me a registration of your product
or to write a better version of this application.
Send comments, suggestions, bug-reports etc. to
tessar00@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
DeAL!
Disk'em ALL!
© 1995 by Martin Tessarek