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From: e299-an@sim.uucp (David Egert)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need general info
Summary: New user wants to know what to do
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Date: 24 Aug 88 03:42:20 GMT
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Reply-To: e299-an@sim.UUCP (David Egert)
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I just discovered this newsgroup and spent a good part of my day trying to 
download some of the programs in comp.binaries.ibm.pc to my PC.  Since what
I tried didn't seem to work I was wondering if one of you experts could 
answer a few questions.

First an unrelated question:
I would desparately like to get Omega but missed the first postings due to
ignorance of net use.  When will it be reposted?

Now for some more techincal stuff:

I was attempting to get a game called Haunted House which was posted recent-
ly on comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  The steps I took were:

1) Save the posting to my unix account
2) Use the command "sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' <filename> | uudecode    
   To do this two files had to be "concatenated."  Does this automatically
   happen when you save them consecutively to the same file?  Also, is my
   syntax correct?  I thought it was because the command produced a file
   called haunted.arc.
3) I downloaded haunted.arc using xmodem to send text.  
4) I attempted to dearc haunted.arc using pkxarc.  This produced an .exe
   file 600K (yes, 600) long, when as far as I could discern from the
   brief header on the posting, it should have been more like 80K.  
   I also got a warning that the CRC test failed.  Am I using the wrong
   kind of dearcing program?
5) Tried to run it anyway and it crashed my system.

Is it possible to ruin the program by simply loading it into a text
editor like vi, even if you make no changes?  I did that once, too.


Well, I would greatly appreciate any bits of enlightenment you people in
netland could give me.  Please e-mail or answer on this here newsgroup


		THANKS IN ADVANCE

		Josh Dubey