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From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Re: Archives from wuarchive.wustl.edu?
Keywords: archiver?
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:32:43 GMT
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In <5768@mace.cc.purdue.edu> dve@mace.cc.purdue.edu writes:
>I found the ftp site
>	wuarchive.wustl.edu
>has quite a few good software. But unfortunately I cann't un-archive
>the *.arc files. The pkxarc command I have gives a lot of warnings about
>failed CRC checkings and the resulting programs do not run and the docs
>are unreadable.

I've used the archive many times and never had a problem.  I see two 
possibilities:

o  You're forgetting to request 'binary' mode from ftp when grabbing the
   files;
o  The file transfer protocol you're using to get from the mainframe to 
   your PC is munged.

If you're always saying 'binary' to ftp before 'get'ting the files, it's
probably the latter.

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