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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The original filename with title and author has been replaced by random junk..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...
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