Can't see NASA shuttle pic
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:46:20 -0400, Chief McGee wrote
(in article gZink.290592$yE1.284608@attbi_s21):
All I get is "code". How do I display the photos? Thanks
so far all that's been available are .rar files. Typically a complete .rar
set includes .par or .pr2 files. Once all the .rar files and associated .pars
or .pr2s are downloaded, you launch an app which stitches the .rars together
for you, using parity data from the .pars to fill any gaps caused by
corruption or missing files. Most such apps then decode the stitched-together
..rars and you end up with a folder full of binaries. This is a standard way
of distributing very large files or a very large collection of smaller files.
I've been using this for years to email files to people whose ISPs limit the
size of incoming emails and/or who block .zips (for some reason such bozos
have never heard of .rars, so a .rar and .par combo sails right past their
blocks...). I usually use MacPAR deLuxe on Macs and WinRAR on Windows
machines; MacPAR is donationware, WinRAR is shareware. Both will decode and
encode .rars.
The OP says that there will be 330+ .rars and another 130+ .pars, so it's
gonna be a while before the whole thing is down.
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