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Re: Archives from wuarchive.wustl.edu?

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From: Chris Brooks
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 18:17
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In article <5768@mace.cc.purdue.edu> dve@mace.cc.purdue.edu writes:


>I found the ftp site
>	wuarchive.wustl.edu
>has quite a few good software. But unfortunately I cann't un-archive
>the *.arc files. The pkxarc command I have gives a lot of warnings about
>failed CRC checkings and the resulting programs do not run and the docs
>are unreadable.
>	
>Does anybody know what un-archiver is used for these archives? And how
>to get it?

I don't know specifically, but I do that the archive site is Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri, my alma matter.  For a start, send
mail to greg@dworkin.wustl.edu who is a graduate student in CS and he
can probably at least route you to someone who knows.

Good luck!

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Christopher L. Brooks                               6500spyk@ucsbuxa.bitnet
UC - Santa Barbara                                  brooks@faulty.ucsb.edu
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