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The Thursday 2007-05-17 at 12:26 +0100, David Bolt wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Ciro Iriarte wrote:- > > >RAR also provides a options to "Create recovery volumes".... > > AFAIK[0], you can't _create_ a RAR file under Linux, only unpack them. > If that is still the case, being able to create recovery volumes isn't > much help. There is, I think, a linux shareware version of rar, which I tried years ago and found lacking a lot. Maybe they have improved, dunno. Also, the first version of the algorithm was some kind of opensource, but I haven't seen a linux version of that (and it couldn't compete with any of the current compressors, any way). The wikipedia says (under "Archiver features"): Variable amounts of redundancy (recovery record) can be added to an archive, making it more resistant to corruption. Even if parts of an archive are damaged, it is possible to fully recover the stored data if a large enough recovery record exists. It is, of course, interesting, that a compression algorithm handles internally things like volume spanning and redundancy. [...] Yes, there is a current shareware linux version here: <http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm> - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGTGUjtTMYHG2NR9URAhwZAJ95PTfa7VFr381jzByRq/Y3a+JXgwCfdy7K gV8Jm/oiffJnq0lIE1VEdlw= =EVW8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
