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From: NP-f31 <dudewiththe(REMOVE)hair@hushmail.com>
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Subject: Re: To Doc (& the learned Cosmos) A TECHNICAL CORRECTION re Openong RAR files
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:29:24 -0400
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:23:47 +0100, Mephistopheles
<nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:
> In case lurkers are dissuaded from downloading the Cosmos files by an
>observation you made in that tortuous "fort" thread launched
>innocently by "sad"...( a mistaken belief held even by the
>indefatiguable Cosmos himself)........
>
>You erroneously stated :-
>
>"In that way they are posting zip files......... One would have to
>have all the parts of a zip to see what's inside. "
>
>Which, I'm happy to remark, is not true.
>
>You need, as I have done every time, to d/l only one rar file of the
>20 or so in the complete collection, & Winrar will happily unzip its
>contents which, apart from its very last segment, you can individually
>sit back & watch. In the last collection Cosmos dispatched, I was able
>to see a lad climbing his way up a tree in some eight stages.
>
> The sole reason I have bothered to make this comment is the one
>stated in my opening paragraph.
>
>M
Hey Mephi,
Thanks for the clarification. I would have to say that results may
vary. I have d/l zip file segments in the past and have not been able
to extract anything. Perhaps this is because the contents of the zip
file I d/l was a large file and therefore incomplete, where as Cosmos
posts are smaller and some of the files were intact in your partial
download. It is my theory, that is all. I do know that WinRar doesn't
work that way. In the case of Cosmos' excellent posts it would behoove
the downloader to make every attempt to get all the parts, as the
resultant beauty would be worth all the effort. So well done!
Thanks again, my friend!
Doc
NP-f31
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