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  • amelore@slrpnk.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlProtect yourself friends.
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    5 months ago

    It’s going to have some metadata to that effect yes, like a file index or number of parts or total extracted file size. I don’t know the details, I’ve used them I haven’t read the spec. rar is Rarlab’s proprietary format so there might not even be a public spec.
    They’re normally all the same size except for the last part, so it’s not that file 1 is just an index.



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    Multipart archives still exist. They’re now used for file sharing websites that have a maximum file size. Before that they were for unreliable p2p networks, so you didn’t lose the parts you’d already downloaded when your peer goes offline. Originally it was to fit something big on multiple cd-roms or floppies.

    Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc



  • Perhaps I should read Ursula’s bag theory myself, because I’m not quite following how it applies to Solarpunk or talking about climate from this.

    I like everything I’ve read of Le Guin. Just finished reading her last one, Lavinia (Pre-Roman historical myth based on the Aeneid). The Dispossessed is great and you get a feel for an anarchist society. She also wrote a good translation of the Tao te Ching.