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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files
Message-ID: <35180011@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 89 17:53:08 GMT
References: <8643.2572b0cb@ecs.umass.edu>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) writes:

>In article <8643.2572b0cb@ecs.umass.edu> fritz@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>* I have recently started downloading some files from the SIMTEL20 system.  The
>* only problem is that when I download them and try to UN-ARC them...they all
>* seem to have a CRC MISMATCH and the file is automatically marked corrupt.  Is
>* there some sort of special ARC program I should be using?  I've tried PAK, and
>* PKXARC and they both giveK8 the same trouble.  
>I've been getting files from SIMTEL with great success for nearly two years,
>until about a week ago.  Then I, too, started getting files I couldn't un-arc!
>I've tried PKUNPAK, PK35, ARCE, and a couple others.  NOTHING WORKS!
>---------HELP!------------

Don't know if this will help anyone, but I have noticed that SIMTEL archives
appear to be corrupted when I uudecode them using one of the scripts that
was posted here a while back for decoding multi-part submissions.  The symptom
is that the decoding appears to work but the failure is on the dearchiving
step.  When I put the parts together by hand (i.e., using vi), stripping off
all the extraneous stuff, and then run the single piece through uudecode,
the dearchiving step works fine.  I haven't the expertise in script writing,
nor the time, to debug this.  The decoding script works fine for stuff from
comp.binaries.ibm.pc, however.

John Hardin
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