File splitter?

[Slickone]

Sometimes at work I have a large text files that I need to split before I can upload them to the mainframe, since they don't give us enough file space for the whole file. For example, todays file is 177,021KB. I have to use Word to copy/paste to split it (wordpad and notepad won't do it), but it takes forever to do, and also then my PC is really slow until I reboot. It's got 1GB (WinXP), but has tons of background networking stuff and NAV running, which I can't shut down.

Is there a file splitter that will take the text file and split it without having to load it into memory, and without messing with the text formatting? I need to be able to split into 3rd's. A free version, which runs from one standalone EXE, that I could run from a CDROM, would be best! 🙂

 

[Gooberlx2]

Do they still need to be text files? (.txt, .doc, whatever) Or can you change the filetype for the purposes of storing them? If the latter, I suggest using 7-zip portable to compress the files into a split self-extracting archive. You'll get to split the file, and compress them. Text files should compress extremely well, further reducing file size.

 

[nace186]

HJSplit ?

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Do they still need to be text files? (.txt, .doc, whatever) Or can you change the filetype for the purposes of storing them? If the latter, I suggest using 7-zip portable to compress the files into a split self-extracting archive. You'll get to split the file, and compress them. Text files should compress extremely well, further reducing file size.

Yes, as I said they dont allow us enough file size room on the mainframe, so they need to be split into smaller, but useable (text) files. They'll never be re-joined.
I ended up using Textpad to just copy and paste, which must handle large files much better than the M$ products since it works well, but a file splitter would still be quicker and easier.