On Wednesday July 2 2003 08:45 pm, julian wrote:
> Par files are not like zips or other compressed files and you
> cant extract from them directly. They are of use when you are
> unable to get all the files in a large group of files, typically
> rars. More about how it works here:
> http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=6
>
> par is quitting on you as you have no rars, and therefore it
> doesn't have enough information to rebuild anything from the pars
> - it rebuilds all or nothing.
>
> (You can make pars for files other than rars. If you wanted you
> could make pars for a mixed group of file-types all of different
> sizes. The pars you made would all be the size of the largest
> member of that group.)
Thanks for the answer Julian and the link. Between you an Todd,
I've been set straight. Anyhow my experimenting with par has shown
me it can be very useful when some rar's are missing or corrupted.
The linux version is easy to install, works just fine from the CL,
the Windoze version only adds a GUI.
Actually I decided to look into usin 'par', only because I
mistakenly d/l'd them along with all the rar's (74) for a 730
movie. I built the movie successfully from the rar's, but then
moved all the par files to a dir by themselves and tried par. I'm
glad I now have a better understanding of what par can and can't do
thanks to your link. Wish I'd stumbled on that one while Googling
yesterday ;)
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