VERY IMPORTANT: `splitmod' is for personal use only.

This program (splitmod) is Copyright 1993,1994 by Marc Espie.
It is forbidden to redistribute files obtained through the use of splitmod 
to other people, and specifically to upload czip'ed files on the net.
If you want to do that, you'll have to rewrite splitmod from scratch. Reuse
of code from tracker/splitmod for that purpose is forbidden as well.

In short:

DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE FILES OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF SPLITMOD ON THE NET !!!

WE DON'T NEED YET ANOTHER INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT !!!!




Splitmod is a new utility provided for better compression of module
files.

A little while ago, a very nice utility called shorten appeared.
It seems that shorten regularly beats general compression algorithms
as far as digitized samples are concerned. Applying it to a raw module
regularly gives the same or a better compression than lha or zip.
Actually though, part of a module file is composed of samples, but the
rest is a genuine score. 
Hence splitmod, which does split a file (say file.lzh) into its score part
(file.mod) and its sample part (file.mod).

Afterwards, just make use of zip and shorten to build a special archive
(file.czip) holding file.mod (compressed with maximum zip compression rate)
and shortened file.samp.shn (not compressed at all with zip since it can't
beat shorten...)

The size reduction is usually drastic: between 10 and 30% from usual
compressed formats !

Two short scripts (czip and unczip) are provided. czip takes the output of
splitmod and builds the czip archive. unczip is the necessary filter to
be able to replay czip files from tracker.

Note that you can still rebuild the original file from the czip archive through
unczip. DON'T HESITATE TO USE IT BEFORE UPLOADING MOD FILES TO ANY BBS/FTP SITE.

The default czip and unczip files are unix sh scripts, though an amiga execute
version wouldn't be too difficult to build...
