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From: mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: help with simtel20
Keywords: simtel20, corrupt files
Message-ID: <2487@m2-net.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 23:48:32 GMT
References: <670@sdcc15.UUCP>
Reply-To: mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst)
Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <670@sdcc15.UUCP> pa1022@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1022) writes:
>I've been trying to ftp files from simtel20.army.mil, and they all
>come out corrupt.  In ARC files, the first few letters of the first
>file inside come out ok, and then there's garbage and it says the
>file is a few gigabytes long.  It won't get past that.

This is because Simtel20 stores files differently than the rest
of us "normal" machines do.  Something to do with a ninth nybble
or something.  Anyway, there is a program called 8OF9.EXE that will
translate your file into proper MS-DOS form.  I can mail it to you,
or, if there is enough interest, I can post it to the net.

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