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Re: [Pan-users] [Semi-OT] RAR and par2 files
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Re: [Pan-users] [Semi-OT] RAR and par2 files |
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Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:01:03 +0200 |
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On Sunday 05 July 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
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> If rar v3 has ECC built-in, why are par files still used?
Because (on Linux):
- par2 is an excellent and higly customizable program/tool and free!,
- par2 comes in a mulitithreaded variant, on a quad core is runs 4 times
faster, the linux rar is single threaded :-(.
- par2 can be used on any file
my 2 cents, YMMV
C