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From: geoff@hls0.hls.oz (Geoff Bull)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: mgse archive server - SCSI BBS files
Message-ID: <930@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 10 Sep 90 22:22:53 GMT
References: <1378@mgse.UUCP> <11706@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: geoff@hls0.highland.oz.au (Geoff Bull)
Organization: Highland Logic Pty. Ltd. , Moss Vale NSW, Australia.
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In article <11706@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> rankins@argentina (raymond r rankins) writes:
>#send other/scsi-bbs/area07/17b.arc
>
>Can anyone tell me what format this file is in?  I've never come
>across anythin with a '.arc' suffix before.  How was it created?  I've

I decoded this stuff by uploading it to a PC and running PKXARC on it.
Then you'll find its formatted with Wordstar (yuk!).

A lot of files on the bbs are in ZIP format and you need the PKUNZIP utility
which can be found on the archive (again its a DOS program). I don't
know whether you can use PKUNZIP to extract a '.arc' file.

It would be nice if Unix versions of PKZIP and PKARC were available.

It would be even better if the files were in text format (instead of Wordstar).

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