Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: archiving program problems Message-ID: <1991Jan12.104105.20050@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 12 Jan 91 10:41:05 GMT References: <91011.222618XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 28 In article <91011.222618XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET> XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET writes: >The lynx V9 program boots up, gives me a pretty screen and menu, allows me >to choose the menu item, shows me a list of files that I may un-lynx, then >recycles back to the main menu without performing ANy of the chosen operations. Some Lynx's are sensitive to whether the files is SEQ or PRG. Since file type info is not preserved across FTP's (and I think Kermit makes every download a SEQ file), you sometimes have to use a program to translate SEQ to PRG type before you can use the dearchiver. There are also at least 15 versions of Lynx out there, and they are not necessarily compatible. >The zip-unzip program seems to do its job; it separates out the files alright, >but it seems to write a PROGRAM to the disk's DIRECTORY! The files won't >run once they have been unzipped. You shouldn't confuse ZIP with a program of the same name on IBM machines. In fact, 'Zip-Code' is the name of the archiver we're talking about here. At any rate, when you un-zip a Zip-Coded archive, it creates an entire disk of new files, erasing what was on the disk before. -- begin 644 .signature G5&AI