Combining files

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-06-30 10:53am

I am currently downloading a file.

Its split into 16 parts for ease of download, how do I later on combine the files? is this even possible?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-06-30 11:02am

There's file splitter programs out there. . . What did you download it using, and what's the extension on the split files now? Some programs like bittorrent split up the files downloaded for ease of use and recombine them when it's completely finished. Though i've never heard of anything like this happening before.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-06-30 11:04am

Darth_Zod wrote:There's file splitter programs out there. . . What did you download it using, and what's the extension on the split files now? Some programs like bittorrent split up the files downloaded for ease of use and recombine them when it's completely finished. Though i've never heard of anything like this happening before.

I'm downloading it from an FTP using FlashFXP, its naturally split up AFAIK,
17 parts, first is an .exe the rest are .rar . I assume I need to run the .exe?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-06-30 11:14am

Ace Pace wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:There's file splitter programs out there. . . What did you download it using, and what's the extension on the split files now? Some programs like bittorrent split up the files downloaded for ease of use and recombine them when it's completely finished. Though i've never heard of anything like this happening before.
I'm downloading it from an FTP using FlashFXP, its naturally split up AFAIK,
17 parts, first is an .exe the rest are .rar . I assume I need to run the .exe?

hunh. that's odd. Yeah, just run the exe. It might be a self-extracting file splitting utility, though it's hard to say without much more detail.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-06-30 11:16am

I'll try that when it finishs downloading, its either this works, or to P2P I go.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-06-30 11:33am

What are you downloading, just out of curiosity?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-06-30 11:37am

Darth_Zod wrote:What are you downloading, just out of curiosity?

Tango1_fs2.vp from the HLP FTP server.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-06-30 05:19pm

RAR is the extension of a compression program, just like ZIP. If the first file is an exe, then it's either just the self-extracting first part (probably created with WinRAR) or an independent install program that uses RAR archives as data.

It's probably the latter, because the former has a tendency to use extensions like RAR, R01, R02 and so on.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-06-30 05:23pm

Thank you, it was a self-extractor that took ages.

*swears at stupid FTP server*