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LadeJarl

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Mon Mar-22-04 12:24 PM
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6. These are parity files

A .PAR file is not an archive file. It is a PARity file. You will most likely have several other files listed along wiht the normal archieve files like rar, r01 etc, The PARity archives are called .P00, P01 etc.

There are 2 types of parity systems, par-1 and par-2. The .PAR files are from par-1.

The reason why people post par files in addition to the archives is that if one or more of the archive files are not complete, you can use the parity files to reconstruct the missing archives.

See http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ for a program
and http://usenethelp.codeccorner.com/QuickPar_Primer.html for a primer on parity archives.

Erik

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Reply #6: These are parity files [View All]