Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!rex!mgse!marks
From: marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: mgse archive server - SCSI BBS files
Message-ID: <1411@mgse.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 06:40:23 GMT
References: <1378@mgse.UUCP> <11706@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <930@hls0.hls.oz>
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In article <930@hls0.hls.oz> geoff@hls0.highland.oz.au (Geoff Bull) writes:
>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

This is a program from the PC-DOS world that will take a number of files
and compress them using a number of differant methods to get the smallest
file, and then stick them all combined into one file with the .arc extension.
Sort of like compressing them and then tar'ing them under Unix. It is available
for PC-DOS, amiga dos, atari tos, Unix, and even a few 8 bit computers.

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

I left the files in the wordstar format to preserve anything extra that
someone with wordstar can use. There are several programs in the archive
to translate Wordstar format to text, including C source for a Unix filter.

To get it the conversion program with C source, send the following two
line message to archive@mgse.UUCP or archive%mgse@rex.cs.tulane.edu

set uuencode
send other/scsi-bbs/area06/wstxt.zip

>
>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.

No you can not use PKUNZIP to extract a .arc file, but programs to unarc and
unzip for Unix are already out there, check out alt.sources, comp.sources.unix
and comp.sources.misc.

To get it the unzip and arc programs with C source, send the following two
line message to archive@mgse.UUCP or archive%mgse@rex.cs.tulane.edu

set uuencode
send other/unix/arcsv11.sh
send other/unix/unzip30.tar

You may want to type 'arc' and 'unzip' and see if they are already installed.
These programs are available from a number of FTP archives as well as the 
mail server at mgse.

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

For you, or the people with WordStar under PC-DOS, CM/P or Unix?

>-- 
>Geoff Bull (Senior Engineer)	Phone  : (+61 48) 68 3490
>Highland Logic Pty. Ltd.	Fax    : (+61 48) 68 3474
>348-354 Argyle St		ACSnet : geoff@hls0.hls.oz.au
>Moss Vale, 2577, AUSTRALIA


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