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Also known as: multi-volume archive
An archive written as several fixed-size volumes rather than one large file. Splitting predates Usenet but suits it well: volumes of 50MB to 500MB give the PAR2 set manageable units to check and repair, and let a partly damaged download be fixed volume by volume. Extraction needs every volume present, and unpackers pull the rest in from the first.
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