Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sjsca4!molehill!poffen
From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble getting files from SIMTEL20
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.202903.24343@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 20:29:03 GMT
References: <4446@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@molehill.UUCP (Russ Poffenberger)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
Lines: 27

In article <4446@ur-cc.UUCP> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>I'm not sure where to post this, so I'm going to start here in an IBM group,
>where I hope someone can help me out.
>
>I have been trying to download files with Unix ftp from SIMTEL20.  Once I
>have received the files on my local Unix machine, I download them to my PC.
>All of the files have a .ARC extention.  When I try to unpack them with
>PKXARC, it dies because the archives are all screwed up.  Are these file
>"pre-compressed" and have to be run through something else first?  Are they
>using a new archiver?  This happened with over 5 files, so I don't think that
>it was just a bad file.  
>
>Any suggestions or help would be appriciated.  Please E-mail (if it works) and
>I'll summarize if there is any interest.  Thanx!!!
>
>

I do basically the same thing. I download .ARC files from a simtel site to my
Sun workstation, then copy them to a PC using pc-nfs. A couple times I have
gotten bad transfers, but this only happens about 5% of the time, and re-
downloading them works OK. Maybe your un-arc utility is suspect.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies       UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
1601 Technology Drive		CIS:	72401,276
San Jose, Ca. 95110
(408)437-5254