Re: UNZIP'ing Borland's ".CA1" files

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From: Mike Levis
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:19

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In article <1992Sep14.025407.29256@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> enu321d@barney.eng.monash.edu.au (A. Walker) writes:
>A friend of mine is wonderring how to combine and unzip the 
>'file.ca1 file.ca2 ...' files
>supplied in Borland C++ 3.0(+App frame works) distribution disks.  
>Quote 'Its a real pain
>to go thru the whole installation procedure (12 disks!) just to install
>some extra part of BC++. There is no option to avoid installation of
>the main binaries....."
>	I suggested he 'copy file.ca1+file.ca2 file.zip /b' but unzip
>reports a CRC error about mid-way ie the join was unsuccessful.
>
>	Thanks
>	Junaid

You need to remove the first four bytes from each "*.ca?" file before
you concatenate it.  After you do this, the resulting file will be
normal.  I guess you will have to write a program to strip off the
first four bytes.

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