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- From: Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Extracting info from the internet
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 16:32:58 GMT
- Organization: California State University, Chico
- Message-ID: <4gfhfq$15c@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- cowboy@nwlink.com (Cowboy) wrote:
- > I have seen a lot of references to ftp sites in this group, and see
- > information that I would really like to use, but all the world is not
- > M$-DOS. Mine is though. I do not know unix commands to extract and
- > read the files I have downloaded (gz and sfx extensions) and, although
- > I would love to learn unix, for now I am in Windows.
- >
- > I was wondering if anybody could point me in the direction of a
- > program that could extract these files. They are just sitting on my
- > desktop taunting me.
- >
- I tried to e-mail you a response, but your end was not receiving.
- As for the .SFX files, the primary question here is whether or not you
- have or have access to a 1571 or a 1581 disk drive. These need only
- be copied to a C= compatible disk and run to de-arc them. This is
- readily done if you have a 1571 or a 1581.
-
- As far as the .GZ files, this is decoded with gunzip, which runs under
- UNIX. I had a record of the site to get this file, but can't find it
- now.
-
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