(PARity file) A file that contains the computed parity bits from a source file. PAR files are generated from Usenet archives that have been broken into multiple files because of file size limitations ...

I am on usenet and I see .par and .roo files. How the hell do I use these? Can someone tell me how I am supposed to use these to make a whole file? I am a newb at this. Thanks. You'll have to grab ...

Mac OS X only: Join and split giant files into PAR's with free utility, MacPAR deLuxe. If you post or download files to Usenet (Giganews, anyone?) MacPAR's for you. It will: Verify the completeness of ...

Correct me, but from my reading, the PAR2 files are just there to verify the integrity of the contents, so I ran QuickPar on them and it says everything is good (no repairs needed).<BR><BR>So I have 5 ...