Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 day 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 day agoFiles shared on Usenet (which may violate piracy laws) are usually packed in the rar format
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
In sorry I sold have specified. I’m curious about the recovery feature.
arkanoid@lemmy.ca 1 day 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 day ago
Neat, thank you!