--- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:27 PM 7/2/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > > Does anybody know how to extract the file contained in pars? > >(ie, .p01, .p02, .p03,....). This is gettin to be very popular on > >USEnet for uploading large binaries in parts. I got the > >par-v1.1.tar.gz an compiled the binary, then put it in /usr/bin , > >but 'par -h' doesn't help much, and Google can't find any docs or > >much of anything for that matter. There's a mailing list, but it > >only has two mesgs on it, and no archive. > > http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ > > > > I tried both 'par c(check)' and 'par m (Try to restore from all > >parity files at once), eg 'par m filename.p01', but both tell me > >that all the .po's are OK, but all the rar's are missing. I've > >inferred that par files were supposed to contain the whole archived > >original file, save d/l'g by not needing all the rar parts, no? > >-- > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > Yer gonna hate my answer.. > > Par works with WinRar AFAIK only. its a way of making sure redundancy > is > built in so that if you miss one RAR archive the PAR's can be used to > build > a coherent set of archives anyway. > ------------- > FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt
And it does that extremely well. Rar is the bomb. I use it for archiving to cdrom, for that very reason; if an archive segment gets blown out by a bad sector on a cd, then I can reconstruct the archive array using the recovery information. If you need Rar, Vincent Danen maintains an mdk rpm on his site, rpmhelp.net. Bless him... --LX __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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