Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Files shared on Usenet (which may violate piracy laws) are usually packed in the rar format

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In sorry I sold have specified. I’m curious about the recovery feature.

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    • 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.

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Neat, thank you!

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