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diff --git a/system/par2cmdline/README b/system/par2cmdline/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..93dc8abce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/par2cmdline/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +par2cmdline (Commandline implementation of PARv2.0 specification) + +par2cmdline is a GPL-licensed commandline tool for creating and using PAR2 +parity sets to detect damage in files and repair them if necessary. The +program uses Reed Solomon Coding to perform its error correction. A useful +program for checking and ensuring the integrity of binaries retrieved from +usenet for instance. + +This program, or it's argued gcc, has compile issues which result in a +"Warning: ignoring..." messages during the build process. This problem is +known and was made a gcc bug, which was shortly fixed. From what I know, +this issue does not affect the actual compilation of the program. + +For information on the issue see these messages: + http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2004-04/msg02848.html + http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2004-04/msg02856.html + http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356548 + +There is also current work being done on a par2 library extracted from +par2cmdline called libpar2 and is available at pararchive.sourceforge.net. +However, since it still contains the original par2cmdline, it has the same +compilation issue. + +On a side note, par2cmdline in combination with unrar (available here on +SlackBuilds.org) can be used by the python program hellanzb to make getting, +verifying and unraring files with a nzb file almost totally hands-free. +For more information see: http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/. + |