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Re: SIMTEL-20 archive type

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From: Austin H. Ziegler, III
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 19:25
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>>>>> On 2 Feb 90 16:14:38 GMT, thomas@gemed.com (Thomas J. Stirn) said:


Thomas> I have downloaded a number of archives from SIMTEL, the only
Thomas> problem I have is I don't know what type of archive was used in
Thomas> their generation.  Would some kind soul please post the archive
Thomas> method used and where I can get the appropriate dearcing
Thomas> executable?  I have tried all the PK types.

	PKXArc should work, but you may need to get ARCE to dearchive the
files.  That can be downloaded from SIMTEL20, but don't worry....it is
self-extracting.

Thomas> Thanks,
Thomas> Tom

P.S.  If you post things about SIMTEL20 to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d then you
will probably get an answer from Keither Peterson directly.

austin
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Subject: Re: SIMTEL-20 archive type
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