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MetaWraith · 21-04-2005, 22:22

Hi, sorry for the terse answer, but am a bit rushed here, hope this helps

RAR is a type of compression similar to ZIP, you will need a program like WinRAR to open them http://www.rarlab.com/

I am guessing here that the ".r01" ".r02" etc are similar to winzip's multi-floppy spanning feature.

SFV stands for Simple File Verification, its is basically a mathematical short checksum number based on the original file. ie a poor mans MD5 hash.

http://www.wotsit.org/ is a reasonable place to start looking up what file extensions mean

EDIT
dealing with my other chat windows meant most of this is was not necessary,oh well,c'est la vie.

21-04-2005, 22:22	#5
MetaWraith Inactive Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: 2nd CPU to the right & past the cache Posts: 1,949	Re: What is a RAR file? Hi, sorry for the terse answer, but am a bit rushed here, hope this helps RAR is a type of compression similar to ZIP, you will need a program like WinRAR to open them http://www.rarlab.com/ I am guessing here that the ".r01" ".r02" etc are similar to winzip's multi-floppy spanning feature. SFV stands for Simple File Verification, its is basically a mathematical short checksum number based on the original file. ie a poor mans MD5 hash. http://www.wotsit.org/ is a reasonable place to start looking up what file extensions mean EDIT dealing with my other chat windows meant most of this is was not necessary,oh well,c'est la vie.