thanks so much for being so informative.. hugs Rainy
"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper******.com> wrote in message
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> Rainy wrote:
>> I have never heard of a zip that comes in parts like a rar does..
>> I'm up for learning anytime.. and in this particular zip was one
>> file, a graphic.. one image! You are right, I was talking about a
>> cam zip utitlity.. had 7zip on my mind.. lol thanks for all the
>> information.. had trouble with the 7zip and file association.. I
>> had so many unzip utilities on my computer, I had to uninstall the
>> ones I wasn't going to use... then went to folder options to make
>> sure zips were associated with 7zip. It wasn't! . Thanks for wading
>> through my explanation.. I appreciate the input and all the new
>> information.. and No I didn't know this.. I have had a computer for
>> 10 years or more and have never seen a zip that depends on other
>> parts of the zip like a rar does.. Is that what you mean by
>> Multipart? hugs rainy
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> Multi-Part Archives are fairly common.
>
> RAR (.RAR or .Part01.rar, Part02.rar, etc or .r01, r02, r03, etc.)
> ZIP (.ZIP + .z01, z02, z03, etc or Part1.zip, Part2.zip, etc)
>
> Essentially - it's taken a file/set of files&folders and split it into
> several smaller files as it compresses them. You need all the pieces
> of the puzzle (all the files in the series) to extract everything
> successfully.
>
> There's even applications that just split a large file into several
> smaller ones (no compression to speak of):
>
> HJSplit (.001 + .002 + .003, etc)
>
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> Shenan Stanley
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