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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PAK v2.10, part 1 of 2
Message-ID: <1038@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 11 Nov 89 17:49:11 GMT
References: <5292@cps3xx.UUCP> <NELSON.89Nov8095447@image.clarkson.edu> <7407@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <5327@cps3xx.UUCP> <7569@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <7569@ttidca.TTI.COM> troeger@ttidcb.tti.com (Jeff Troeger) writes:
>In article <5327@cps3xx.UUCP> hendrick@frith.UUCP (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>
>>In article <7407@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> hartung@amos.UUCP (Jeff Hartung) writes:
>>As far as I know, the program is not infected with a virus.  I would not
>
>Well, I just downloaded PAK210.EXE, and tried to unpack it and PAK.EXE was
>corrupted (BAD CRC) and would not unpack. This is one of the reasons why
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc is moderated, and why I'm not taking PC binaries from any

Please hold you horses and do not jump to conclusions quite yet.  It
is VERY very common to make errors in transfering files from the
host to the PC, and this causes exactly the same problem that you
have.  Of course, this is not conclusive, but since in 99% or more
cases the problem is this, it is advisable first to check for that
possibility.  Being a moderator of a file downloading site myself,
this is my experince.  But do note, that what I say does not vouch
for your copy of PAK210.EXE, only that a handling error is by far
the most likely reason. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
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