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JAxe manual
To use JAxe, you need Java JRE (or JDK) 1.5 installed on your system; to download it, please visit Java homepage.
To launch JAxe, open a command/terminal window, move to the directory where you downloaded the JAxe.jar file and then type:
java -jar JAxe.jar
In some systems (as far as I know, Windows and Solaris), an easier way to launch JAxe is simply double-cliking the icon of the JAxe.jar file.
Once the program window shows up, use its buttons to interact with the program:
- Use the info button in the top left corner to get some info about JAxe;
- Use the close button in the top right corner to quit JAxe;
- Use the drag button on the left to move JAxe window: click on the button and move your mouse holding down the left button;
- Use the toolbar on the top of the window to access JAxe functionalities:
- Click the CRC button to compute the checksum (with CRC32) of a given file (or simply drag&drop a file from a file explorer window on the CRC button);
- Click the compare button to check if two files or directories are equal (or select the two files or directories and drag&drop them on the compare button);
- Click the join button to join back a file which was previously split using JAxe or HJSplit (or split&zipped using JAxe v. 0.3 or higher) or by the Unix program
split (if you come across files ending in aa, ab, ac, ... probably they're the result of the work done by split); JAxe also implements a mechanism to overcome some file naming problems which arise when downloading split files using Microsoft Internet Explorer (for example: a file named music.mp3.001 that has been saved as music.mp3.001.mp3); you can also simply drag&drop the first file to join on the join button;
- Click the split button to split a file into smaller pieces (or, again, drag&drop the file on the split button) - in the dialog window which shows up you can choose the file to split and the size (in KBytes) of its parts; you can also check the
Zip single parts box if you wish JAxe to automatically zip the file parts.
- Finally, use the skin button on the right of the window to change JAxe skin.
How to install skins
JAxe creates a directory named skins; when you want to add a new skin, you can simply place the .zip file containing the skin in the skins directory - or if you prefer you can create a subdirectory of the skins directory and extract there all the files from the skin .zip file.
If you wish to create your own skin, please read the instructions here
Command line syntax
JAxe can now be used from the command line, without the need of launching its graphic interface.
Just use the following syntax:
java -jar JAxe.jar -h to show the help page;
java -jar JAxe.jar -j <FileToJoin> [<DestDir>] to join back a file starting from its first fragment <FileToJoin>; the joined file is saved in the <DestDir> directory (or in the current directory if the argument is omitted);
java -jar JAxe.jar -s <FileToSplit> <Size> [<DestDir>] to split <FileToSplit> into fragments of <Size> KBytes; fragments are saved in the <DestDir> directory (or in the current directory if the argument is omitted);
java -jar JAxe.jar -z <FileToSplit> <Size> [<DestDir>] to split <FileToSplit> into fragments of <Size> KBytes; fragments are zipped and saved in the <DestDir> directory (or in the current directory if the argument is omitted);
java -jar JAxe.jar -c <FileToCRC> to compute the CRC32 of file <FileToCRC>;
java -jar JAxe.jar -= <FileOrDirToCompare1> <FileOrToCompare2> to compare <FileOrDirToCompare1> and <FileOrDirToCompare2>
Please keep in mind that entering java -jar JAxe.jar with no arguments will launch JAxe graphic interface!
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