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Subject: Re: How unARC from SIMTEL20?
Message-ID: <1085@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 14:07:59 GMT
References: <32900001@symcom>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <32900001@symcom>, cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU says:
> 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.

simtel20 does have a file of the name ARCHIVE-INFO or near that that
explains all the procedures for stuff. 

1) during your ftp transfer did you do a:
type tenex              or:
quote "type l 8"

simtel20 is a 36bit machine. If you did a straight binary tranfer to 
a standard UNIX 32bit machine, you got trash.

2) The way I usually do it is get the stuff to a BSD UNIX machine and 
use the BSD ARC program I got from simtel20 to unpack it. I then 
repack it using my favorite method and tranfer it to my PC./


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