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- From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: .ark and C= Classifieds...
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:43:55 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Message-ID: <1gt2krINN91l@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Dec17.225159.1@acad.drake.edu>
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- agb001@acad.drake.edu writes:
-
- >I've seen that a few problems by people trying to decompress those .ark files
- >that have been reported to be at Wuarchive FTP site. (I don't know personally
- >as I haven't been over to check it...)
- >
- >Anyway, the .ark suffix is characteristic of the ArKive 2.0...
-
- >I however, DO know that Omega-Q 2.0 will undo .ark files IF they are correctly
- >downloaded as BINARY and are not corrupted in anyway. If they are corrupted,
- >Omega-Q reports back with an Unrecognized Format.
-
- What are these files? I am not familiar with an "arkive" program that does
- .ark's in the C64/C128 native mode. All of the files I've run into with .ark
- on the end have been CP/M archives, and there are archives (which can be found
- on wuarchive) that will dissolve them.
-
- -Rob
- rknop@cco.caltech.edu
-