Parity Files - PAR2 Because of restrictions amongst Usenet servers, articles containing a file can often be a maximum of 50 Megabytes. Binary articles bigger than 50 MB are therefore broken onto pieces so they can be distributed on Usenet while obeying the limits. Your client downloads all the different pieces and '…
RAR Archives Explained for Tweaknews Users A RAR archive is a type of compressed packaging used to combine and compress multiple articles into a single, structured unit. On Usenet, large sets of articles are often organized into multi-part RAR archives , which split data into numbered segments (e.g., .part01.r…