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 SplitChing Readme
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what is it ?
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  SplitChing is a freeware file-splitter that helps you to split larges files into smaller ones. Each part-file is created in a format that is 
  widely used by many different other file-splitters, such as HJSplit.
  SplitChing can also - fortunately - recreate back the original file from part-files.

How do I install SplitChing ?
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  Extract SplitChing in a folder (C:\Program Files\SplitChing for example), then run it (NOTE: Vista's users have to run splitching.exe as an   administrator in order for SplitChing to correctly install itself, by using Right-Click, Run As Administrator).

  You can associate/remove SplitChing to the Explorer's Contextual Menu, by clicking install/uninstall button.
  
  When installed, SplitChing adds the 'Split' menu item for every files in explorer's contextual menu, which allows you to split a 
  file in one click. SplitChing also adds 'Join' menu item for *.001 files, which allows you to recreate a file.
  
How do I use SplitChing ?
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  Once installed, SplitChing is very easy to use.

  1) splitting a file

    In Windows Explorer, right-click the file you want to split, and select 'Split' in the contextual menu.
    SplitChing window shows up.
    Choose part-file's size, then click 'Split' button to begin the splitting operation.

  2) joining a file

    In Windows Explorer, right-click the first part file (which has the extention *.001) and select 'Join' in the contextual menu.
    SplitChing window shows up, and begin immediately the joining operation.

Contact
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e-mail: splitching@free.fr
website: http://splitching.free.fr


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 SplitChing Change Logs
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0.2a - 09/04/2008:
- [change] statusbar removed.

0.1d - 14/10/2007:
- [fix] fixed minor bugs.

0.1c - 24/08/2007:
- [fix] fixed a bug in files access rights management.

0.1b - 14/08/2007:
- [feature] operation window is now resizable.
- [change] both push-buttons were replaced by a dropdown-button which shows a popup menu when the user clicks the down arrow.

0.1a - 03/08/2007:
- first release.