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From: wirun@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Da Ratt )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: bad files: enough is enough already...
Keywords: getting files...
Message-ID: <611@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 03:23:20 GMT
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    ARRRGGGH! I spend 2 hours to download UUEARC files from SIMTEL, or
get them from the Net, and they puke wonderfully when it comes to
PKXARCing them. A recent example was the Yahtzee game posted to 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d, PKXARC: "is not an archive"! 

    Listen folks, I've being trying to get stuff off the Net and Simtel 
for about 5 months now...it seems my success rate for getting files/programs
to work is about 2/15!  All of the attempts seem to expire when I try to
unPKARC (V3.5) them.

    We are running here in Calgary SunOS 4.0 and I'm either using the 
UUENCODE/DECODE on the Sun or V2.14 by Richard Marks on my AT. I get files
from my BITNET account when I make requests from Simtel, then ship them home.
I use this SUN account to get things from the net..

    I would be indebted forever to anyone who can shed light on this
situation. To the poster of 'Yahtzee': is that uuencoded file okay,
or is it just me....?

    (Whew, sorry gang, had to let out a little steam there! ;-> )

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