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The only thing I can think of is sending large files by breaking them up (r00, r01 etc), like how a lot of movie torrents come packaged. Just now thinking about it though: can
zip
do that too?Yes, Info-ZIP can do that, it's called a split archive.
man zip
and-s
splitsize or--split-size
splitsizeIn that case yeah, I have no use for rar only unrar.