Re: How to deal with .pak files?

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From: Timo Salmi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:11

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In article <1993Jan26.161806.22638@nwnexus.WA.COM> night@halcyon.com (Brent Olson) writes:
>I have been trying to guess what program
>I need to deal with this problem.  I have

You can stop guessing now and get the relevant FAQs. :-)
 107719 Jan 24 13:51 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq32.zip
  47206 Nov 27 16:14 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/faqc9212.zip

>files with the extension .PAK and I don't
>seem to have any program to deal with it.

I have a surprise for you.  The program is called PAK, would you
believe.  It also handles .sdn files (also a FAQ, incidentally).

 103338 Oct 7 1990 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/pak251.exe

>I tried hpack78 and unpack from garbo, but
>they didn't like the files I have.

That's for .hpk files.  Tight and very slow.

>Can anybody tell me what it is, and which
>arcer I need to "unpack" these archives?

Can, and probably will. :-)

   All the best, Timo

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Subject: Re: How to deal with .pak files?
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