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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Help With Archive ( A Novice Question )
Message-ID: <394@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 21:48:56 GMT
References: <90Jan7.003729est.2200@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <6075@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <6075@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> whelan@uhccux.UUCP (Jerry Whelan) writes:

|                                                     PKPAK uses an additional
| compression scheme that normal Sea ARC doesn't like.  Unfortunately I have
| yet to find a PKUNPAK for unix, however as long as you are working with pc
| files, you might as well un-arc them on a pc.  

1. simtel seems to use all "pure" arc files.
2. a version of arc for UNIX which will unpack the pkarc format (is it
   squashed?) and optionally unpack text files with just a newline is
   available from the archive server at sixhub. See the monthly postings
   on using it in alt.sources.d.
-- 
	bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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