Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 month agoFiles shared on Usenet (which may violate piracy laws) are usually packed in the rar format
Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 month agoFiles shared on Usenet (which may violate piracy laws) are usually packed in the rar format
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 month ago
In sorry I sold have specified. I’m curious about the recovery feature.
arkanoid@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It essentially splits the archive into multiple rar sub-files (*.r00, *.r01, etc.) and then creates several more chunks that contain parity information (par2 files) that go with it. By doing so, if you then lose *.r45 but get *.r00-r99 you can recover the *.r45 file from the parity (par2) data. It’s pretty slick.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Neat, thank you!