Re:The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
by zozbot234 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:57AM
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> Many don't know why winzip/winrar has the option to split an archive into multiple files (so they can fit 1.44" floppy disk
Good archiving programs came with the option of using erasure/error correction codes so that the archive would still be recoverable, even if some of the floppies were returning read errors or became unreadable altogether.
Good archiving programs came with the option of using erasure/error correction codes so that the archive would still be recoverable, even if some of the floppies were returning read errors or became unreadable altogether.