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diff --git a/libraries/libpar2/README b/libraries/libpar2/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..801e46ade3 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libpar2/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +libpar2 (file corruption detection library for C++) + +libpar2 allows for the generation, modification, verification of PAR v1.0 +and PAR v2.0(PAR2) sets used for recovery when data is lost or corrupted. When +used with collections of files, some missing files can be regenerated. + +The code was initially extracted from the program par2cmdline (also available +at SlackBuilds) to allow developers to use it. + +libpar2 requires the libsigc++ library which is also available from +SlackBuilds.org. |