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- From: mitcht@alaska.net (Mitch Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Need Help Extracting lha files.
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 06:18:50 GMT
- Organization: Internet Alaska Inc.
- Message-ID: <1081.6579T1199T560@alaska.net>
- References: <Efrain-0201960311080001@ppp-57.ts-5.nyc.idt.net>
- <855.6576T331T2453@alaska.net> <1225.6577T1175T1782@crl.com>
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- Hello, Joseph Waldvogel,
- >>I don't think it is possible to buy the lha software (unless of course you
- >>register it (it's shareware) with the author).
-
- >>How did you use a terminal program to access aminet? Try using an ftp
- >>program
- >>(ncftp, for example). Maybe something was getting lost in the download.
-
- > Thats EASY! You Log ONTO your ISP's SHELL account with whatever Terminal
- > program you use, me TERM, you then can use ftp or ncftp, quite simple, done
- > it manytimes, so thats how! Maybe he using just ftp and didn't set the
- > program to BINARY mode! That will screw the program up getting Downloaded
- > in ASCII mode! It's Automatic in ncftp though. This is MY guess at least
- > from the message. He wasn't all that specific.
-
- Ah, ok. It's been so long since I've used my term program for anything other
- than logging into my credit union. My ISP doesn't even offer shell accounts,
- only PPP (dynamic or static).
-
- --
- Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
- Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on,
- but it was moving very fast.
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