pja@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Peter J Angeline) (05/13/91)
I'm rather new in this archive and freeware culture so I hope someone out there is patient enough to answer a couple of neophyte questions about ftping things from an archive. I know I need to get an arc and zip program to unpack most of the stuff I can get ahold of. Since I don't have any yet, I went to the mirrors archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu and ftp'd pak251.exe (in binary mode) from mirrors/msdos/arc-lbr to my office sun4 figuring this would be executable on my pc without needing to be unzipped or unarced. I also grabbed uemacs for my pc. Then I used procomm's kermit protocol with kermit on my sun4 to get both programs to my pc. Kermit transfered in binary mode. Once there I tried to run pak251 on uemacs.zip but my new pc hung rather quickly. I've got a 386sx running msdos 4.0. Figuring I did something stupid, I tried the same process again with the same result. Then I tried to ftp in ascii mode and no luck again. Any suggestions? Did I do something wrong in the ftp process? Is there another place to get executables which are not compressed so I can uncompress some files on my pc? Am I in the wrong universe for what I want to do? Any and all constructive suggestions would be deeply appreciated. You can email to me directly rather than repost. Thanks a heap. -pete angeline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Angeline ! Laboratory for AI Research (LAIR) Graduate Research Assistant ! THE Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 ARPA: pja@cis.ohio-state.edu ! "Nature is more ingenious than we are."