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> Many don't know why winzip/winrar has the option to split an archive into multiple files (so they can fit 1.44" floppy disk

Good archiving programs came with the option of using erasure/error correction codes so that the archive would still be recoverable, even if some of the floppies were returning read errors or became unreadable altogether.



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