Bug#355231: RFA: ras -- Adds redundancy files to archives for data recovery.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the ras package. I basically never use it
anymore, it was useful in the floppy era but is less so nowadays.
The package description is:
Ras is a program that adds m extra files to a set of n files, such
that the contents of the n original files can be regenerated from any
n of the n+m original files and extra files. Normally, these extra
files will all be 6 bytes larger then the largest of the original
files, but ras has a mode in which the extra files are exactly the
same size as the original files.
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Ras was originally intended for transporting a large file split over
several floppy disks in a manner resilient to the corruption of a few
of the disks, and a pair of example shell scripts to do this (rassplit
and rasmerge) is included in the distribution.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: alpha
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc4-dirty
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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