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From: pja@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Peter J Angeline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Archive Trouble
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Date: 12 May 91 19:28:11 GMT
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I'm rather new in this archive and freeware culture so I hope someone out there
is patient enough to answer a couple of neophyte questions about ftping things
from an archive.  

I know I need to get an arc and zip program to unpack most of the stuff I can
get ahold of.  Since I don't have any yet, I went to the mirrors archive on
wuarchive.wustl.edu and ftp'd pak251.exe (in binary mode) from
mirrors/msdos/arc-lbr to my office sun4 figuring this would be executable on my
pc without needing to be unzipped or unarced.  I also grabbed uemacs for my pc.
Then I used procomm's kermit protocol with kermit on my sun4 to get both
programs to my pc.  Kermit transfered in binary mode.  Once there I tried to
run pak251 on uemacs.zip but my new pc hung rather quickly. I've got a 386sx
running msdos 4.0.  Figuring I did something stupid, I tried the same process
again with the same result.  Then I tried to ftp in ascii mode and no luck
again.

Any suggestions?  Did I do something wrong in the ftp process? Is there another
place to get executables which are not compressed so I can uncompress some
files on my pc?  Am I in the wrong universe for what I want to do?  Any and all
constructive suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

You can email to me directly rather than repost.  Thanks a heap.


							-pete angeline

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Peter J. Angeline            ! Laboratory for AI Research (LAIR)
Graduate Research Assistant  ! THE Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
ARPA: pja@cis.ohio-state.edu ! "Nature is more ingenious than we are."