ted@helios (Ted Cantrall) (11/11/89)
Some kind soul posted a 2 part, uuencoded version of PAK210.EXE archiver. I saved both parts, stripped off the unneeded parts, cat'ed them together and ported them to a PC where they failed to extract. The error messages were "Warning! Encountered bad archive header!" and CRC mismatch. file damaged." Did I miss a step? Perhaps I stripped off too much? I would like to hear from the poster, if possible. -ted- ted@helios.ucsc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ted@helios.ucsc.edu | "The opinions are mine... (408)459-2110 | ...the facts are public domain." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
w8sdz@eddie.mit.edu (Keith Petersen) (11/12/89)
PAK210.EXE is available from SIMTEL20 via standard anonymous FTP and
from the BITNET file servers. It is in directory pd1:<msdos.arc-lbr>
Keith
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In article <9715@saturn.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes: >Some kind soul posted a 2 part, uuencoded version of PAK210.EXE archiver. >I saved both parts, stripped off the unneeded parts, cat'ed them together >and ported them to a PC where they failed to extract. >I would like to hear from the poster, if possible. I got the files back out of our /news/spool/* area, did the stripping, cat'ed them together, and ported them back down to my pc. I have uuencode running on my pc. (Which is, incidently, where they were uuencoded in the first place.) Then I was able to successfully extract the programs. I also uudecoded it on the Unix machine, and used Kermit in "set file type binary" mode to port it down to my pc. This also worked. Perhaps you overlooked something, or maybe it got corrupted in the mail. In the rare case that original ideas Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN are found here, I am responsible. Owen W328, E. Lansing, MI 48825 Internet: hendrick@frith.egr.msu.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!frith!hendrick
richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent) (11/13/89)
> From: ted@helios (Ted Cantrall) > Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d > Subject: pak210.exe posting > Message-ID: <9715@saturn.ucsc.edu> > Date: 10 Nov 89 21:34:47 GMT ... > Some kind soul posted a 2 part, uuencoded version of PAK210.EXE archiver. > I saved both parts, stripped off the unneeded parts, cat'ed them together > and ported them to a PC where they failed to extract. > The error messages were "Warning! Encountered bad archive header!" and > CRC mismatch. file damaged." Did I miss a step? Perhaps I stripped off > too much? > > I would like to hear from the poster, if possible. > -ted- > ted@helios.ucsc.edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ted@helios.ucsc.edu | "The opinions are mine... > (408)459-2110 | ...the facts are public domain." > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not the poster, but pak210.exe worked just fine for me. Try again, I guess. BTW, PAK runs about 5% better compression than DWC, which we use internally, but it takes significantly longer to get that 5%. A quick test on a large text file (Forsberg's ZModem document), had PAK take about 4 times longer than DWC. It did get 63% compression versus DWC's 58%. Email if there is interest in getting DWC. If enough, I will send it to Rahul. Richard Sargent Internet: richard@pantor.UUCP Systems Analyst UUCP: uunet!pantor!richard
hlb@loral.UUCP (11/16/89)
In article <9715@saturn.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes: >Some kind soul posted a 2 part, uuencoded version of PAK210.EXE archiver. > >I would like to hear from the poster, if possible. > -ted- >ted@helios.ucsc.edu How about seeing PAJ210.EXE posted again. Thanks.