Het programma QuirPar is aangekomen bij versie 0.4. Met dit programma kan je zogenaamde Parity Volumes aanmaken volgens het Reed Solomon algoritme. Met deze bestanden ben je vervolgens instaat om data te controleren op corruptie en wanneer nodig kan je de data weer reconstrureren. De software wordt door de ontwikkelaar als volgt beschreven:
QuickPar is a utility for creating Parity Volumes using the Reed Solomon algorithm. For details of the algorithm used, see the parchive website at SourceForge.
Parity Volumes may be used to verify that a set of files have not been corrupted, or to reconstruct damaged files (providing that you have a sufficient quantity of Parity Volumes to match the missing or damaged files).
QuickPar uses the PAR v2.0 specification.
Bugs fixed:
On Windows 95, after creating recovery files, it was not possible to immediatly verify them.
Changes:
When verifying files, the order in which files were processed has been changed so that all recovery files are loaded before any of the data files are verified.