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Subject: Re: The old game of hangman (from c
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 07:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 07:40:00 1987
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>I received several responses to my original complaint about
>arc being unable to work the wordwiz.arc posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.
>The answer is that I am supposed to use pkxarc to get the files from it.
>Honestly, though, how is one supposed to know to use pkxarc instead
>of arc? The filename extensions are the same (.arc), and there is
>no mention of which program he used in the message.
>--				Nathan Glasser

If you had read the Administrivia that was posted (it's not there today
but it was there last week) then you would have known.  The moderator
said that binary uploads are to be uuencode pkarc files.  If you
started subscribing to comp.binaries.ibm.pc before the Administrivia
message was deleted then you deserve any headaches you've recieved.
However, I agree that it would be helpful 1)if the Administrivia message
was not deleted and 2)if people mention that they've used pkarc v?.?
to pack the files they've uploaded.

jvc@mirror.TMC.COM