On Wednesday July 2 2003 03:14 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
> I'm not an expert on this, but I believe par's are magical
> because they can be any rar file they want. For example, you
> download somepron.rar, somepron.r00-somepron.r23,
> somepron.r25-somepron.r32, and sompron.r34-somepron.r60. So,
> you're missing parts 24 and 33. No problem, so long as you have
> at least 2 par files. Those 2 par files will replace any two rar
> files you're missing.
>
> Try:
>
> par recover nameofparfile.par
>
> the parfile.par is what I think indexes all the files. The
> command will check each of your rar's, then it will reconstruct
> the missing rar's assuming you've got enough par files (p01, p02
> etc.).
>
> HTH,
> Todd
It did help, at least it confirmed what I sort'a suspected. You
also need the rar files, or at least most of 'em. That being the
case I'll just get all the rar files and save 'par' for the
situations were some might be damaged or missin. Giganews has a
policy they try to keep, of not posting parts unless they're all
there. So missing rar's is rarely a problem. 'Course it ain't free
either ;)
I thought it was too good to be true ;) In defense of my naivete
I got the notion from some USEnet posters that all you needed was
the pars, saved a lot of d/l'g. Wish that were true.
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