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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Help on Vax_Text_File.zip_or_.arc_or_.zoo
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Date: 18 Jan 90 21:13:07 GMT
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In article <444.25b33bd2@sysqq.mdcbbs.com>,
pirk@sysqq.mdcbbs.com writes:
>
>cut where instructions say to cut, Done... At this point, the files should be
>ready to pkunzip or arce, but I get Invalid Archive Format on all files/types
>that I have tried. A sugestion was made to BIN/HEX the files like what is
>needed on a Mac, but I haven't heard of any of these type of programs discussed
>in this newsgroup. The resulting file that I am trying to pkunzip or arce is a
>readable text file as seen in the postings. Does ANYONE know where the missing
>link is???

The one missing step is that the readable text file you have must be
"uudecoded" using a program called UUDECODE, which can be found on,
e.g., wsmr-simtel20.army.mil in directory pd:<msdos.starter>. This
converts it back to a a binary file, which can be extracted using
ARCE or whatever. The conversion to ASCII is done because many or
all mail systems have problems sending 8 bit data.

Richard Stanton