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Article #2223Re: Help with unpacking archive
From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 1990 19:04
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 1990 19:04
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shatara@islnds.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes:
> Subject: ZIPPED archieve of DB3+ utilities
>
> I received the following zipped and uuencoded DBase III+ utilities a month
> ago. I've been on vacation for the past three and a half weeks. I'm
> having one hell of a time unzipping these. I uudecoded them ok. Pulled
> them down into my PC with Kermit (file type binary). Then I run PKUNZIP
> (versions 1.1 and 0.97) and I get the message:
>
> PKUNZIP: WARNING! I don't know how to handle .....
>
> I get this message for each file in the archive. No names are printed out.
I just uudecoded the file. UUdecode reported a corrupt last line.
PKUNZIP V1.10 unpacked all the files just fine. FV reports the files are
in Shrunk or Reduce-4 format.
In other words, I think your copy of Zip is broken (both of them,
actually... no imploded files in here), or you had a bad transfer.
--
Roy M. Silvernail | #include <stdio.h> | Does virtual
now available at: | main(){ | reality need
cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu | float x=1; | swap space?
(cyberspace... be here!)| printf("Just my $%.2f.\n",x/50);} | -- me
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