rsb5c@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) (04/17/91)
At one ftp site, I saw that numerous dos utilities to be ftp'd are somehow compressed, either ending in .arc or .zip. I have also seen another directory at this ftp site onctaining numerous files beginning with arc, others with zip, but after I download them, I can't figure out how to put them together to form ane executable archiving program. Going by the Macintosh world (where I am from), I assume that both the arc and zip programs will be so common that most readers of this newsgroup will be able to tell me how to ftp either the arc ro the zip program, and even tell me what they do! Thanks very much in advance, RB.
tmurphy%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.170325.16145@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rsb5c@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) writes: >At one ftp site, I saw that numerous dos utilities to be ftp'd are >somehow compressed, either ending in .arc or .zip. There are 4 main forms of archives you will run into. PKarc PkZip Lharc and Zoo. You should be able to find utilities for handling these files on the same locations that you can find the software. Try looking in the mirrors/msdos/(utilities or archives) section of wuarchive. Or you can find them on grape.clarkson.edu The utilities are generally self unarchiving so you will download them and then for instance type in pkz110 and it will self explode in the current directory. There is a great readme for most of them and they will also tell you what to do if you just type in the program name. The general idea with pkzip is pkunzip "filename" and bingo it will do it all. murph