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From: a864@mindlink.UUCP (Jono Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FRAINT10.ARC @ SIMTEL20
Message-ID: <728@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 14:45:29 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> hartung writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <7495@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
> Posted: 21 Nov 89 18:50:08 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Univ. of Calif., San Diego
> Person: Jeff Hartung
> 
> I have downloaded and extracted (successfully) both FRAINT10.ARC and
> FRASRC10.ARC (which contains the C source code to fractint 10). However, I
> did notice that two of the files (the executable and doc file, I think) were
> "squashed", which some ARC extractors can't handle.  Perhaps this is your
> problem.  If not this, when you are downloading to your PC, are you setting
> the transfer to 'binary' mode and using parity set to 8 data bits and no
> parity bits?  This may also be the source of the problem.
> 
>  --Jeff Hartung--
>  Disclaimer: My opinions only, etc., etc., BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!...
>  ARPA - hartung@amos.ucsd.edu
>  UUCP - ucsd!amos.ucsd.edu!hartung


Everything unpacked from the archive fine except for the .EXE file.  I've
downloaded other programs from SIMTEL and they've turned out fine - so I can't
figure out what is going wrong.

I'm using the latest version of PKPAK/PKUNPAK so it isn't that either.

Thanx for the comments :-)
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