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From: rusbara2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Archives from wuarchive.wustl.edu?
Keywords: archiver?
Message-ID: <4598@sage.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 03:55:34 GMT
References: <5768@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Oct15.033243.12796@hoss.unl.edu>
Reply-To: rusbara2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
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In article <1990Oct15.033243.12796@hoss.unl.edu> ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) writes:
>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.

Well, I've found that 95% of the time that's not the problem...

Anyway, shouldn't it be set to 'tenex' instead of binary?  That's
how simtel works, and wuarchive is mirroring them.  That's how I've
always gotten my files, and it's always worked.  Unless it's set
up so it doesn't make any difference with wu.

If the original poster is using kermit, did you set the file type to
binary on KERMIT?  It's on text by default with most of them at least,
so if you "don't know" whether you did odds are you transfered the files 
in text mode.  That will give the errors you described.

You don't have to set PC-Kermit, just the one on your mainframe.

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Bob Rusbasan
bob@en.ecn.purdue.edu