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From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Moria bombs during de-archive
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Date: 14 Feb 89 20:16:18 GMT
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Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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In article <5681@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
}In article <8902132024.AA23239@baldwin.csri.toronto.edu> ray@csri.toronto.edu
}(Raymond Allen) writes:
}}While trying to un-archive the distribution of PC-Moria, ARCE bombed with
}}the message "Invalid Archive Format" while trying to uncompress the file
}}"moria.cnf".

}This happens because I absent-mindedly allowed the moria archive, and
}one or two others, to go through with some "Squashed" files in it.
}(Sorry -- I will avoid this in the future.)  Please see if you can get
}PKXARC to extract it.

ARCE V3.1b can handle squashed files.  Still, I appreciate your avoiding
squashing as I do not have a Unix ARC which can handle squashed files
(blasted things!) since it saves my having to send the archive to my PC
for re-arc'ing (actually, I use ZOO :-), thanks, Rahul) and then sending
back so I can put it on my archive tape.

regards, Larry
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