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From: mallari@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Mallari)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: simtel20 arc format
Summary: It should work
Message-ID: <10826@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 89 23:13:41 GMT
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In article <2118@cps3xx.UUCP> jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu () writes:
>Should I be able to unarc files downloaded from simtel20 fine with
>pkxarc? I downloaded about a meg of stuff over the weekend (before you
>ask, yes, I did a 'quote "type l 8"') However, once I got it to my PC
>and tried to unpack stuff, pkxarc claimed it found bad CRCs it about 90%
>of the files I downloaded.

I have pkxarc and it worked fine.  Something must have gone wrong with 
your transfer between either Simtel20 and your machine or your machine and
your PC.  To be sure I did the same thing you did, I typed 'type tenex' at
the ftp prompt and then got the file.  Then I downloaded the files to a 
pc that happens to be on the network.  I tried pkxarc and it worked.  See
if 'tenex' works.

-Brian

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