Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:49:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> > I am developing a very CPU-intensive, open-source error-correcting code.
> >
> > The intention of this code is that you can split a large (> 5GB)
> > file across multiple packets. Whenever you receive enough packets that
> > their combined size = the file size, you can decode the packets to
> > recover the file, regardless of which packets you get.
>
> Sounds very interesting; there would be a ton of applications for that.
> Thanks in advance for deciding to make it Open Source / Free Software.
Isn't this just what PAR and PAR2 do (in conjunction with a file splitter)?
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Glenn Maynard
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