Total Commander

Currently, the 700 MB (CD-R) is the maximum size provided in the split function's drop-down. Wouldn't it be useful to add additional sizes, now that DVD-Rs are used as much or more as CD-Rs? I don't know the exact sizes, but there are quite a few when it comes to DVD-R's.

Perhaps even better, make it possible to enter sizes in other units than in bytes, e.g., 4.3 GB (and perhaps GiB?), 8.7 GB, 1024 MB, and so on.

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make it possible to enter sizes in other units than in bytes,

You can actually enter megabytes for example 3000 MB - but you kan not enter KB or GB.

I suppurt more predefined values, and the possibility of entering both KB and GB

DVD-Rs and -RWs aren't currently offered because (to my knowledge) the max. size differs between various brands.

petermad wrote: You can actually enter megabytes for example 3000 MB - but you kan not enter KB or GB.

Ah, but then the documentation should state this possibility. And it would be nice if KB and GB were supported as well.

ghisler(Author) wrote:DVD-Rs and -RWs aren't currently offered because (to my knowledge) the max. size differs between various brands.

True. That makes it difficult for sure. But I suppose the standard sizes, 4.3 and 4.7 GB would be valid options. Still, I see the issue.

You can enter any value as long as it is in bytes.

Just write:
1000 for 1 KB
1000000 for 1 MB (or 1024000 if you like)
1000000000 for 1 GB
and so on.

But note that only 999 parts are maximum. So if you would like to split a 8 MB file in 1 KB parts, it wont be possible, cause there'll be 8000 parts.

MacQ wrote:You can enter any value as long as it is in bytes.

I, myself (earlier) wrote:Perhaps even better, make it possible to enter sizes in other units than in bytes, e.g., 4.3 GB (and perhaps GiB?), 8.7 GB, 1024 MB, and so on.

You could have read the whole post.

MacQ wrote:Just write:
1000 for 1 KB
1000000 for 1 MB (or 1024000 if you like)
1000000000 for 1 GB
and so on.

And that's, currently, wrong. A KB is still defined as 1024, i.e., 2^10, in Total Commander, although SI has recently introduced KiB as an alternative so that a KiB is 1024 bytes, while KB would be the more logical 1000 bytes.

SI is base 10.
IEC is base 2.

Icfu

icfu wrote:SI is base 10.

That's what I said, or am I missing something? Perhaps I was unclear. I mean, everywhere but computer sciene, a KX would be a thousand X. The reason for a KB being 1024 for computer scientist is that, unfortunately perhaps, 2^10 is very close to being 1000, so someone had the clever idea of calling 2^10 a KB.

You have claimed that KiB "has been introduced recently by the SI" which is wrong. There is no Byte unit in the SI, it's defined in the IEC instead.

Also there is no "KB". The SI prefix for kilo is k (lowercase) as K is a base unit in the SI system (Kelvin).

So, as a result we get that:
1 kB = 10^3 = 1000 Bytes
1 KiB = 2 ^10 = 1024 Bytes

All other prefixes are always written uppercase as there are no conflicts. k is the only exception.

Icfu

Ah, OK. Now I'm with you. Thanks for clarification.