You guys have too much time on your hands! Lets get real here.. Most of us
like Outlook Express and don't care or have the time for the detailed,
special doodahs.
"hielan' laddie" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:47:16 -0400, Peter Hucker wrote
(in article ):

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:43:29 GMT, Casey Tompkins
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:31:49 -0700, Hap wrote:


To clarify authenticity and recovery options are available in WinRAR
but TMK it isn't able to make use of .par2 files. A person would want
QuickPar to first rejoin the .rar volumes back to a single 4.7GB (!!)
.rar, and then use WinRAR or it's equivalent to unpack the archive.
I'd be interested to know if something has changed.


No, you don't need the .par files, nor do you need to rebuild it into
one giant .RAR files. Just (assuming you want to burn the bandwidth)
d/l all the parts, right-click on part1, and select "Extract files."

I agree that more than one .RAR would have been more workable. That's
one big puppy.

I was missing 15 parts. Quickpar ran through it and recreated those
parts using the pars. It did NOT create a huge rar file.


I may have caused confusion when I said 'stitch together' the .rars.
WinRAR
doesn't generate a single huge .rar, it just uses the .par info to replace
the bad/missing .rars and then decodes the whole thing.

I don't see what the moaning and groaning is about. I set a filter in my
newsreader which would look for binary data in any post with 'NASA Shuttle
Pics' in it, download that binary data to a folder named 'NASA Shuttle
Pics',
and delete the post when done. I checked the folder periodically until I
saw
a bunch of .pars in there, then I double-clicked on one of them and MacPAR
deLuxe launched, verified the .pars, assembled the .rars, fixed a few
corrupt/missing .rars, verified the .rars, and decoded the result. I've
spent
more time typing up this post to this point than I did to download the
Very
Large Number of excellent quality pix. (Thanks, J3, and ignore the
nay-sayers. They have no clue what they're talking about.)

IMHO a proper newsreader does proper filtering; Hogwasher, the newsreader
I
use on Macs, for example can filter on _any_ header, can filter for
binaries
or text, can generate a folder, save binaries (or text) to that folder,
and
do various other things. (This includes tagging the posts of people I
particularly want to read, or _don't_ want to read, with colour, so I can
be
sure to read 'em or avoid 'em as necessary. It includes outright killing
of
posts, and of course it includes saving a copy of a post, headers and all,
to
disk. That last can be very useful when some bozo denies that he said
something...) There are lots of other newsreaders which have equal or
better
filtering, for both Mac and Windows. (Sorry, don't know Linux. Tuxers will
have to find such newsreaders for themselves.)

If I had decided that I didn't what to download the pix, I'd simply not
have
bothered with the filter. If the sight of .rars in the pristine confines
of
a.b.p.a so upset me that I couldn't stand it, setting up a kill filter
would
have been even easier than setting up a save filter.

A proper newsreader will read/write common formats used on usenet... which
includes YENC.

There are a rather large number of proper newsreaders which are free or
cheap. Those who, for whatever reason, decline to use a proper newsreader
and
who then complain about something which would be cured if they had a
proper
newsreader will get no sympathy from me.

Having got the files on disk, WinRAR or QuickPAR or MacPAR deLuxe or any
of
several other apps would have decoded it by my simply double-clicking one
of
the .pars.