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From: huangch@eecs.nwu.edu (Chih-Hao Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: simtel20 arc format
Message-ID: <11110002@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 05:33:46 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ eecs.nwu.edu:comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d / usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) /  3:53 pm  Mar  8, 1989 /
>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.
>
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Are you sure that the files were downloaded to your PC in BINARY mode?
Just look at the sizes before and after downloading, then you can tell.

-- C.H.Huang	EECS Dept., Northwestern University

huangch@eecs.nwu.edu