tim@banyan.UUCP (11/19/87)
Can someone tell me what an IBMPC .ARC archive file is and exactly how I de-archive one? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Henrion Communications Software Engineer UUCP: ...!necntc!banyan!tim Banyan Systems, Inc. VOICE: (617) 898-1116 115 Flanders Road Westboro, MA 01581 "UNIX? What do you expect from the phone company..." :-) "I'm striving for financial independence so I can go work for the FSF..."
petree@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mitch Petree) (11/22/87)
In article <224@banyan.UUCP>, tim@banyan.UUCP (Tim Henrion) writes: > Can someone tell me what an IBMPC .ARC archive file is > and exactly how I de-archive one? > A .ARC file is just what you said, an archive of several files encoded so as not to take up so much space, useful for transfer over phone lines, etc. (If you are interested, look up Huffman codes for a start.) You can get a dearchive program from most PC BBS's. PKXARC is a dearchive program that works with PKARC and most previous versions of ARC. PKARC/PKXARC are self-dearchiving and contain documentation. If you don't have any luck, send mail and I will give you the number of a BBS which has PKXARC. - Mitch Petree