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by RajT88 969 days ago
Rar used to be the option of choice when you had file upload size limits, then you could use multivolume.

7z does this now, so it is legacy stuff I come across I use RAR for. I am not aware of any advantage for RAR over 7z. I rarely have to use multivolume these days anyways.

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> I am not aware of any advantage for RAR over 7z.

In-file forward error correction[1]?

[1]: https://www.win-rar.com/recovery-record.html