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From: Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans)
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Subject: Re: ftp & newcastle
Message-ID: <1991May20.103740.23325@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 20 May 91 10:37:40 GMT
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s871985@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Scott Peucker) writes:

>Well...Everything I have recently obtained from Newcastle, or ftp'd has refused
>to de-arc itself once I have downloaded it...I seem to continually get
>"Bad header in file xxx" (from both Sparkplug i and II)...
>Any Ideas why this could be?
>Is it the link to my site ?


This may be my fault for not putting the info in the files. When people send
me floppies with unarced stuff on, I always use compress and tar on Unix to
wrap the files (I also include the commands to set the file types).

So try uuudecode, uncompress and tar xf to unwrap the files.

Albert