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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Trouble getting files from SIMTEL20
Message-ID: <4446@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 89 19:30:18 GMT
Reply-To: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
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Organization: University of Rochester
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I'm not sure where to post this, so I'm going to start here in an IBM group,
where I hope someone can help me out.

I have been trying to download files with Unix ftp from SIMTEL20.  Once I
have received the files on my local Unix machine, I download them to my PC.
All of the files have a .ARC extention.  When I try to unpack them with
PKXARC, it dies because the archives are all screwed up.  Are these file
"pre-compressed" and have to be run through something else first?  Are they
using a new archiver?  This happened with over 5 files, so I don't think that
it was just a bad file.  

Any suggestions or help would be appriciated.  Please E-mail (if it works) and
I'll summarize if there is any interest.  Thanx!!!


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University of Rochester	*  		  will screw it up."		     *
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