Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pixar!unicom!daniel
From: daniel@unicom.UUCP (Dan Smith, not your average Lithuanian...)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SKY.ARC error
Message-ID: <305@unicom.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 01:30:54 GMT
References: <398@tsc.dec.com> <24071@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: daniel@unicom.UUCP (Dan Smith, not your average Lithuanian...)
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Organization: Science Computer Center, MCC, Kentfield, CA
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Keywords: bad header

In article <24071@clyde.ATT.COM> ucsd!moss!rcj (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>I got the same error when I tried to look at the uudecoded archive
>(I did it twice).  Then, when the second copy of part 2 arrived here,
>I tried it again and still got the same error.

	Part of the standard pkarc/pkxarc distribution are a couple of
files/programs tha allow you to produce self-extracting archives. This
program (skyplot) is one of them. The poster mentioned that in his
cover letter. What you do is uudecode it, make the name end with .exe,
and run it from Msdos. Should work fine. It will self extract into the
cga and ega versions, and you'll get a doc file as well. Self extracting
archives have the advantage of not requiring you to use pk-anything - I
think that the pk stuff is distributed this way.

>Many thanks in advance for any solution,

	You're welcome :-)

				dan

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