wrm@pnet02.cts.com (William Mattil) (02/05/88)
chn@a.UUCP (Charles Neil) writes: > >I hope I have found the correct newsgroup for this query. >Can someone out there help me learn how to get binaries >off the net and onto my pc, and get them running? >I have written (via the w command) several articles from >comp.binaries.ibm.pc to local files. Then I read the >first few lines of such a file, and it says to uudecode, >and then unarc. When I uudecode the file, I get another >file called <filename>.arc. I don't know what to do with this >.arc file. I've tried ar, and that said "file not in archive You need to run a program called ARC.EXE by SEA on the program in question. ie: ARC x filename.arc ( the x tells arc to extract all components of the archive. ) You should be able to get the latest release of ARC from any good "DOS" based bbs. UUCP: {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax rutgers!marque}!gryphon!pnet02!wrm UUCP: {hplabs!felix, crash}!telcomm!wrm INET: wrm@pnet02.cts.com