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HELP with Newsgroup D/L

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azenergyfan

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Hi
I am appealing to all you genius heads on here to help me out. I am on a newsgroup and have been trying to d/l the don and mike show but the person who uploads it has the file with a mp3.par extension. Does anyone know how I can save the file just as an mp3 file and not with that par extension. I believe the par stands for part and in some cases there are 25+ parts to a program that are uploaded. When I go to save the file my system wants to save it as par3 or par4 etc. Any help would be appreciated.
 
> Hi
> I am appealing to all you genius heads on here to help me
> out. I am on a newsgroup and have been trying to d/l the don
> and mike show but the person who uploads it has the file
> with a mp3.par extension. Does anyone know how I can save
> the file just as an mp3 file and not with that par
> extension. I believe the par stands for part and in some
> cases there are 25+ parts to a program that are uploaded.
> When I go to save the file my system wants to save it as
> par3 or par4 etc. Any help would be appreciated.
>
It sounds like you may have your extensions mixed up a bit. for Usenet postings, people will often take one large .mp3 file and compress it into several smaller parts using the Winrar archive program. These smaller parts are then posted to the newsgroup and you will need Winrar to decompress the parts back into one large .mp3 file. Rar archives have either an extension of .rar as in DonAndMike Part01.rar, part02.rar etc, or DonAndMike.rar, .r00, .r01, .r02 etc. Either way, you will need Winrar or another program that can handle .rar files to reconstruct the .mp3 file inside. .par files, on the other hand, are parity files. Parity files are smaller files that will accompany many large Usenet postings. These files can be used to recovery missing or damaged parts of a file or collection of files. Quickpar is a good program that handles .par files. There are many variables to this scenario, but hopefully this will point you in the right direction. I have been using Usenet for many years, and the culture does come with a learning curve.
 
.par are parity files used to correct errors in a file... and or split a file into smaller parts for usenet postingsplit files will look like filename.mp3.001 with the number in seq at the endyou still need the file and then you can use quick par to check and repair ityou can very easily locate it with a search in google
 
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