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Re: ZIP,ARC, and easiest way to do this

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From: Timo Salmi
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 19:07
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In article <1991May20.145606.20427@hollie.rdg.dec.com> carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty) writes:
:
> I see a lot of files on ftp sites of the form foo.arc,foo.zip etc..
> I can make out these are compressed files.
>
> I don't have any of these utilities on my  PC.Don't have PC on the net.
> Have unix R3000 machine on net.
:

The MsDos archivers are available for example from the /pc/arcers
directory, and the Unix counterparts from /unix/ts directory at our
anonymous ftp site, and from many other ftp sites as well.  If you
don't know how to go about figuring out how to transfer and handle
archived files, you are welcome to email for our prerecorded
instructions as a starting point. 

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
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Subject: Re: ZIP,ARC, and easiest way to do this
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