Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!simmons From: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Getting files from SIMTEL -> Unix Summary: In my case, the last entry was corrupted. Keywords: simtel,arc,corrupt Message-ID: <5396@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 22 Nov 89 02:36:06 GMT References: <426@iconsys.UUCP> Reply-To: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons) Followup-To: <426@iconsys.UUCP> Distribution: all Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Lines: 28 In article <426@iconsys.UUCP> mday@iconsys.UUCP (Matthew T. Day) writes: >I am having some problems with the archives found on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. >[...] The files I am dealing with are .ARC files >in the pd1: directory. [...] I try to use >the Unix arc program (ARC 5.21 Patchlevel 2) to extract the files. This ARC >program says the archives are corrupt. I have noticed that ARC 5.21 sometimes >only says the .EXE files in the .ARC file are corrupt, but I have also >had archives where ARC claimed the .DOC files were bad. > I have had the same problem with not only .ARC files, but with .zoo files emailed to me by bao. (Sorry bao, I lost your email address.) In my case, it is always the LAST archive entry that is corrupted. Each of these bad entries has a CRC error. I looked at the SIMIBM.ARC sections after splitting the file, and noticed the corruption was the string "usr" repeated to the end of the file. As it happens, "usr" is a group name on the system I am using, of which I am a member. Perhaps in my case, email picked up the string in uucp's memory space and thought it was data. Anyone out there have a better idea of what is happening to us? Reply-To: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons) ________________________________________________________________________________ President: NCR PC User Group, Inc. | International Association of PC User Groups 101 Whitehorse Road | Same Address Lexington, SC 29072 | ________________________________________________________________________________