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From: cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU
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Subject: How unARC from SIMTEL20?
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Date: 14 Nov 88 10:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: symcom.math.uiuc.EDU!cameron    Nov 14 04:43:00 1988


What un-ARC-er should I use on files from SIMTEL20? And where
should I get it from?

Apologies in advance if there is some standard place to go for
this information.  I did look through the titles of all 302
notes my site currently has in this notesfile before asking.

Details:
I have seen frequent remarks of the form "such-and-such is
available for anonymous ftp from SIMTEL20".  Today, for the
first time, with the help of a friend, I found out how to
get to SIMTEL20 and bring back files.  I fetched two, both
with names of the form <descriptive_word>.arc.<digit>,
and I downloaded them by a hitherto-always-reliable method
from my networked machine to an IBM PC.  The transfer program
swears that the transmission went OK, and the byte count is
the same on the PC as on the machine I did the ftp with, but
I cannot de-archive the files.  Both SEA's ARC (version 5.2,
I think) and PKARC version 3.5 are unable to read the files,
and deny that they are in archive format.

Any help most gratefully appreciated.
Thanks profusely.

--Cameron Smith
  cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu