Posted by Morton Davis on 01/19/14 11:41

"Yenc-Post 2002" <Yenc-Poster@yenc-post.org> wrote in message
news:44080ba4$0$4531$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> "AlmostBob" <anonymous1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:hQKNf.10796$M52.5850@edtnps89:
>
> > http://www.binsearch.info/faq.php
> >
> > will tell you
> > joeA posts a 700MB file to usenet news servers broken up into several
> > thousand 300KB chunks, you find the index to where the chunks are go
> > to the newsgroup download them all
> >
> > only to find the best bit is missing
>
> That's what the Par2 files are for!
> http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

If the vital one isn't also missing...

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