On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Janis Kracht wrote to Gert Andersen:

> That was the reason that made it as both zip and rar and the rar is
> split of the games.

gert, then we have twice the drive space and bandwidth consumed... please
choose one format or the other [sigh]

 JK> The trouble with spit files is the file is just as big "total" as
 JK> it was before you split it .  It's a little easier to get out
 JK> but I've heard from some people that they don't like split files.

they are easier to get out but you cannot recover the FILE_ID.DIZ from them
very easily... especially not with FDN processing software... so you end up
with crappy truncated descriptions for the parts :/

i much prefer the single file format instead of the following mess... the
descriptions are shite on *4* of the 6 parts of the multi-part archive :(

Area : LNX4GAMES        LNX4: Games for Linux operating systems
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FCVB250L.R00  6,953,264 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux Beta-1 Freeciv is a
                        free turn-based multipl
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
FCVB250L.R01  6,953,264 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux Beta-1 Freeciv is a
                        free turn-based multipl
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
FCVB250L.R02  6,953,264 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux
                        Beta-1
                        Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer
                        strategy game, in which each player becomes
                        the leader of a civilization, fighting to
                        obtain the ultimate goal: to become (or
                        subvert) the greatest civilization.
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
FCVB250L.R03  6,953,264 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux Beta-1 Freeciv is a
                        free turn-based multipl
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
FCVB250L.R04  4,856,271 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux
                        Beta-1
                        Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer
                        strategy game, in which each player becomes
                        the leader of a civilization, fighting to
                        obtain the ultimate goal: to become (or
                        subvert) the greatest civilization.
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
FCVB250L.RAR  6,953,575 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux Beta-1 Freeciv is a
                        free turn-based multipl
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
FCVB250L.ZIP 39,531,503 Freeciv version 2.5.0 for Linux
                        Beta-1
                        Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer
                        strategy game, in which each player becomes
                        the leader of a civilization, fighting to
                        obtain the ultimate goal: to become (or
                        subvert) the greatest civilization.
                        ORIG: 2:230/150
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79,154,405  bytes in 7   file(s)

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