Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: IP205.ZIP - Free form information storage database Summary: IP205.ZIP has been deleted from the SIMTEL20 archives Message-ID: <6802@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 08:35:47 GMT References: <1991Jun5.154301.8582@cc.curtin.edu.au> Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Reply-To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 25 tgriffith01@cc.curtin.edu.au writes: >BLACKMANW@URVAX.URICH.EDU (Webb Blackman) writes: >> I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: >> >> pd1: >> IP205.ZIP Free form information storage database > >I ftp'ed this file and succesfully unziped it but the install procedure >within it uses a self extracting archive which gave a CRC error. Any >body else had this problem? Several other people reported the problem. Sorry it was not caught before the file was made public. IP205.ZIP has been deleted from the SIMTEL20 archives. Webb is trying to get a good copy from the author. I hate self-extracting archives inside archives! This is a good example of what happens when you can't automatically check the files with the built-in archive test function in ZIP or another other archive system. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND