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Also known as: multi-part post, multipart binary
A file too large for one article, encoded and spread over a numbered series of posts. yEnc marks each one with an =ypart line stating which byte range it holds, and subject lines conventionally carry a (n/m) counter. Every part must be retrieved before the file can be rebuilt, so a single missing article turns the whole set into an incomplete unless PAR2 blocks cover it.
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