An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor

Re:An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor by popman on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:23AM (#15541309)

> neither xz nor lzip can correct errors

Speaking of which, is there even a unixy way of adding/applying error correction information to a stream or file?

Ideally, one should be able to do this in a pipe.

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Re:An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor by comex on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:06PM (#15545629)

I didn't know the answer, but I was interested so I googled it:

Basically, you want the tool "par2".

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