Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to get at the size of a splitfile's blocks before
> successfully fetching one block? I'm trying to snarf a number of
> blocks simultanously, immediately dropping them into their right
> positions in the same destination file (rather than into a number of
> temp files). This is only possible if I know their sizes beforehand.
> 
> If there's no such data right now, it would be nice to add this to the
> splitfile metadata. It's much more useful than the total file size
> which is in there.
> 
> -- 
> Robbe

It's a pretty safe assumption that splitfile blocks will be a power of
2 bytes in size.  from that, just take the whole filesize and divide
by the number of blocks and round up.

Thelema
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