mitchell@MDI.COM (Bill Mitchell) (02/04/91)
In article <BiPRw2w163w@infopls.chi.il.us> offline@infopls.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes: >Franco@gprc.UUCP >>What software do I need for files ending with the .arc suffix? > >The software you need in order to de-.arc the file is LHARC. This should >be available from SIMTEL, but if not, it usually isnt too hard to find a >copy on most local BBS's. Hope this helps! > Jeff Gostin Nope. pkxarc de-arcs .arc pkunzip unzips .zip zoo un-zooz .zoo looz also unzooz .zoo lharc unfreezes .lzh melt also unfreezes .lzh uncompress uncompresses .Z unpack unpacks .z There's also comic, but I've never used it, so can't say. And one or two spiffy new compressors thunk up and added to the confusion every year. -- mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (02/05/91)
In article <BiPRw2w163w@infopls.chi.il.us> offline@infopls.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes: >Franco@gprc.UUCP >>What software do I need for files ending with the .arc suffix? > >The software you need in order to de-.arc the file is LHARC. This should >be available from SIMTEL, but if not, it usually isnt too hard to find a >copy on most local BBS's. Hope this helps! > Jeff Gostin Right. Here is some more information extracted from /pc/ts/tsfaq17.arc available from garbo.uwasa.fi anynymous ftp archives. 13. ***** Q1: What is this file with this .zip (.arc, .arj, .lzh, .pak, .sdn, .zoo) extension? What am I supposed to do to it? Q2: I can't run this file I got with a .zip extension. A: This is a total beginner's question, but never mind. One is supposed to start from somewhere. These files with a .zip (.arc, .arj, .lzh, .pak. .zoo) are compressed collections of files. You are not supposed to run a compressed entity (often also called an archive). You are supposed to unpack it first to extract the files from within the package. For this you need the relevant (un)packing program. You can find them in the /pc/pd2 and /pc/arcers directories at the anonymous ftp site garbo.uwasa.fi, or at practically any fine bulletin board. (After you have gotten them, they are very easy to process, since most often these utilities are self-extracting). At the time of writing this we have eg arc602.exe SEA's .arc packing/unpacking system. arj020.zip Robert Kung's .arj archiver lh114b.exe Dense compression from Japan, (hacked?) version lh113de.exe Latest attested version for .lzh compression pak251.exe NoGate (un)packing for pak, arc, sdn, zip, files pk361.exe This packed and unpacked .arc files fast pkz110eu.exe PKZIP/PKUNZIP "Euroversion" with no encryption zoo201.exe Zoo packing/unpacking facility from Rahul Dhesi Once you are well familiar with unpacking and packing, there is an excellent shell for running these utilities. It is called SHEZ and is in version /pc/pd2/shez59.zip at the time I wrote this item. Another advanced feature once you get the hang of this, is that (most of) these are available in the Unix environment, as well. See the /unix/ts directory at garbo.uwasa.fi archives for the Unix versions. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (02/06/91)
offline@infopls.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes: > Franco@gprc.UUCP > >What software do I need for files ending with the .arc suffix? > > The software you need in order to de-.arc the file is LHARC. This should > be available from SIMTEL, but if not, it usually isnt too hard to find a > copy on most local BBS's. Hope this helps! > Jeff Gostin Bzzt! Thanks for playing, though, Jeff! .ARC files are unpacked with one of the following: ARC from System Enhancement Associates (the political wrong choice) PKUNPAK from PKWare, the Phil Katz concern (politically correct ;-) PAK from No-Gate Consulting (PKPAK and PAK also create ARC-compatible files) All 3 are shareware. Be warned, though, that the _new_ version of ARC from SEA is _not_ shareware, not compatible with earlier releases, and not unpackable except with their program. (as far as I know, it's also not selling very well, but that's what they get for being litigation-prone, IMHO) LHARC creates files with the extension .LZH -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu Department of redundancy department, or "Take the long way home...": main(){system("perl -e '$x = 1/50; print \"Still just my \\$$x!\n\"'");} [new year, new .sig, same ol' cyberspace]
offline@infopls.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) (02/11/91)
mitchell@MDI.COM writes: >Nope. >(list of de-compressions, and utilities that will do it) My apologies...you are correct. Jeff Gostin