On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:49:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > > I am developing a very CPU-intensive, open-source error-correcting code. > > > > The intention of this code is that you can split a large (> 5GB) > > file across multiple packets. Whenever you receive enough packets that > > their combined size = the file size, you can decode the packets to > > recover the file, regardless of which packets you get. > > Sounds very interesting; there would be a ton of applications for that. > Thanks in advance for deciding to make it Open Source / Free Software.
Isn't this just what PAR and PAR2 do (in conjunction with a file splitter)? -- Glenn Maynard