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Hi there,

rg9538@ehsn2.cen.uiuc.edu (Ronald E Garnett) writes:
>Help!  I ftp'd a few files from an archive
>site (zips) and tried to unzip them with
>PKZIP 1.10.  It wouldn't work!
>What type of zipping program do those
>archive sites use and how can I get it?

1.  Have you made sure that you set the file type to binary when ftping from
the archive site to your account AND when ftping from your account to
floppy disk (unless your using a modem)?  Do this by typing "bin" at the
FTP prompt... It is a good idea to get used to doing this everytime you
start an FTP session... I have wasted a lot of time downloading binary
files which were useless because I forgot to do this! :-)

2. If you did set to binary, it could be because the file was zipped using
Pkzip 2.01 or later... This is an unofficial hack of the compression
program and many people advise against using it (future downward
compatibility and apparent hardware problems).  If this was the case your
pkzip program would have said something like "I don't know how to handle...".
So you could either try your luck at pkzip 2.01 or try to get the file
from another site.


btw. you can get a list of all the current compression schemes and the
names of sites to get them from, from:

ftp.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) in the directory /doc/pcnet/compression

(unless, it has changed on me! :-)  mail me if you want it bad...


Catch ya,


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