On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:00:12 +0000, Bob wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:51:50 +0200, Rhialto wrote: > >> On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 13:29:26 +0000, Duncan wrote: >>> If the numeric file suffixes weren't 0-prefixed appropriately, it's a >>> bit more difficult, but still /reasonably simple. >> [...] >> >> Or, in one go >> >> cat file.mpg.? file.mpg.?? file.mpg.??? > file.mpg >> >> If you want to be more sure/selective/specific, use [0-9] rather than >> ?: >> >> cat file.mpg.[0-9] file.mpg.[0-9][0-9] file.mpg.[0-9][0-9][0-9] > >> file.mpg >> >> [about rar-ed files:] >> >>> For these files you simply use unrar (gpg but unarchives only, rar >>> itself is proprietary) or some other (un)archiver that handles rar >>> files, since the split is a native part of the format and the >>> unarchiving process thus knows how to reassemble before unarchiving. >>> IIRC, this format can normally be identified by the fact that in >>> addition to the numbered files, one file (IIRC the first part, but >>> it's been years...) is simply *.rar. >> >> That is file.rar, file.r00, file.r01, etc. >> >> That is the "old" .rar naming convention. The "new" one has >> file.part01.rar, file.part02.rar, etc, with the necessary number of 0s. >> >> You always use the "unrar" command on the first file, i.e. file.rar or >> file.part1.rar. >> >> -Olaf. > > Ok. Download and install via synaptic the applications "lxsplit" and > "pypar2". > > Both are command line programs. After you download the split files, be > they video, rar'ed directories or whatever, enter terminal mode in the > directory in which you saved the files. To join the multiple files, > ie.: xxxxx.avi.001 through xxxxx.avi.###, > enter the command #lxsplit -j xxxxx.avi.001 and hit return. This will > quickly join all the parts and create xxxxx.avi. The filetype can be > whatever is called for in the download. > it could be rar, zip, avi, or whatever, as long as the filetype is > followed by the .00x. > > When you downloaded the set of files, you should always include the > .par2 file. Don't worry about the par2 vol files yet. > From the same directory in terminal, enter #pypar2, this will bring up a > small gui for the app, > Click on check, then just below that, click the par2 file interface, > using that to select the directory and par2 file for the joined file. > Below that box click the button 'verify' then at the bottom click "GO" > When finished, pypar2 will tell you if any repair blocks are needed. If > none are needed, you are done. > > If it tells you that 10 blocks are needed, go back to pan and download > the par2 volume that includes 10 blocks. > > it will start with 0+1, 1+2, 3+4, 7+8, etc. In this case you would > download the 7+8 file, as it would include 10 blocks. > > Once downloaded, back to pypar2 that you hopefully did not close. this > time click the Repair(files) > and go again. > > This should hopefully correct the errors/missing parts. > > Bob
I forgot this with regard to split rar files: If the files are split by rar, the filename would be xxxx.part01.rar As said in a previous post, these are combined with rar using the *.part01.rar file If the files are split by another program and you end up having xxxx.rar.001 through xxxx.rar.999 these are joined by a file joiner program like lxsplit. The problem I have seen, with the xxxx.part01.rar type files is that if there are enough errors, then rar errors out with a crc error and the original file is not reconstructed, making the par2 file and recovery blocks un-usable. I try to skip downloading this type of split method. Also, some providers of the newsgroups are slow in getting it all togather and parts of a download may not show on their servers for several hours. The little blue 3-d box at the left of the screen in pan should show a single color, if that section of a download is supposedly complete, or an orange or yellow coloration on the right side of that same box is it is incomplete. If you see an incomplete listing, wait a while before downloading. Go away and check back later, or update that group to see if the box shows full blue, denoting that the part is supposedly complete. binary Bob _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
