| Re: HELP with multi part posts |
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| ian (ian@ian.not) |
2004/12/06 05:13 |
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:23:07 GMT, Tim <timmib.nospam@excite.not.com>
wrote:
>videojunkie <abc@abc.com> wrote on 05 Dec 2004
>
>> Multi part posts used to be one file for each part - this seemed
>> to work well with a lot of parts but easy to deal with the odd
>> missing part. Newer posts seem to be multi part/multi part eg
>> part .001 might have 10 parts to it and if one of those ten
>> fails to decode you lose the whole part 001
>
>This is not true. Just let xnews decode the partial. The par2
>will take care of the lost articles.
>
>> I am sure the extra files that get posted - the PAR files offer
>> a solution but i have no idea how to use them. Is there
>> anywhere one can find instructions for dealing with all these
>> types of downloads - I havent dared look at RAR postings as
>> yet!!
>
>Grab *everything* you can of the post plus the par2. Let xnews
>decode to a directory. Run the par2. It will tell you how many
>additional pieces you need to make the vid whole. D/l par files
>until par2 tells you it has enough. At which point it will offer
>to make a whole vid for you!
Erm, Tim, the par2 is unlikely to run unless videojunkie has already
got QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/index.htm
He might also like to check out alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.male
where I believe the December post of a downloading guide is about to
be posted
cheers, ian
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