mday@iconsys.UUCP (Matthew T. Day) (11/19/89)
I am having some problems with the archives found on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. I am using a Vax BSD 4.3 system to d/l files from SIMTEL. What I am doing is logging into SIMTEL via ftp as "anonymous". I proceed as instructed by the SIMTEL documentation to "type tenex". ftp enters this mode just fine. I then simply d/l the files I want via the "get" command in ftp. They transfer to my system just fine. The files I am dealing with are .ARC files in the pd1:<msdos.xxx> directory. When I finish d/l'ing them, I try to use the Unix arc program (ARC 5.21 Patchlevel 2) to extract the files. This ARC program says the archives are corrupt. I have noticed that ARC 5.21 sometimes only says the .EXE files in the .ARC file are corrupt, but I have also had archives where ARC claimed the .DOC files were bad. What is my problem? Am I d/l'ing files from SIMTEL in the wrong mode?? Please email any comments/answers you may have. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Matthew T. Day, Sanyo/Icon International, Orem, UT (801) 225-6888 | | Unix System Programmer, ..!uunet!iconsys!mday (mday@iconsys.uu.net) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons) (11/22/89)
In article <426@iconsys.UUCP> mday@iconsys.UUCP (Matthew T. Day) writes: >I am having some problems with the archives found on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. >[...] The files I am dealing with are .ARC files >in the pd1:<msdos.xxx> directory. [...] I try to use >the Unix arc program (ARC 5.21 Patchlevel 2) to extract the files. This ARC >program says the archives are corrupt. I have noticed that ARC 5.21 sometimes >only says the .EXE files in the .ARC file are corrupt, but I have also >had archives where ARC claimed the .DOC files were bad. > I have had the same problem with not only .ARC files, but with .zoo files emailed to me by bao. (Sorry bao, I lost your email address.) In my case, it is always the LAST archive entry that is corrupted. Each of these bad entries has a CRC error. I looked at the SIMIBM.ARC sections after splitting the file, and noticed the corruption was the string "usr" repeated to the end of the file. As it happens, "usr" is a group name on the system I am using, of which I am a member. Perhaps in my case, email picked up the string in uucp's memory space and thought it was data. Anyone out there have a better idea of what is happening to us? Reply-To: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons) ________________________________________________________________________________ President: NCR PC User Group, Inc. | International Association of PC User Groups 101 Whitehorse Road | Same Address Lexington, SC 29072 | ________________________________________________________________________________