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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:34:26 +0200
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On 2014-04-25 22:03:50 +0000, Null <null@io.com> said:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:45:16 +0200, Jan wrote:
>
>
>> It is one of the most perverse encoding schemes ever invented.
>> (Ten years to Siberia would be too mild a puishment for the sadist who
>> invented it)
>>
>> First you expand all the zips, to folders containing three files each.
>> Then you combine all the fiels in all the folders into one folder.
>> (overwriting files with identical names)
>> That give you segments of a .rar file, named .rar .roo .ro1 ….,
>> a .nfo file, and a file_id.diz file that can be trashed.
>> You expand the segmented .rar file by feeding the .rar file to an unrar
>> utility.
>> This yielsd the original file.
>>
>> Psychopath however has added a further perversion:
>> The original filename with title and author has been replaced by random junk..
>> You have to look them up in the accompanying .nfo file,
>> and copy/paste them back to fully recover the original file.
>> (perhaps removing some spurious extra chars and returns on the way)
>>
>> In all, it is a lot of work both on the sending and receiving side,
>> it wastes processor cyles (who cares about the planet?)
>> and it usually increases the total file size to be sent.
>>
>> The why of all those unnecessary troubles is someting that psychopath
>> doesn't care to explain.
>>
>> Jan
>
> Again, why the fuck don't you step up to the plate and provide us with all
> this content, arranged the way that _you_ think it should be?
>
> No, I thought not...
Of course not.
Republishing other's offering is not done.
It might be seen as criticism.
Jan
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