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- From: tratclif@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tracy Ratcliff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: .SFX on 64?
- Keywords: smeets, cs-dos, arc, sfx, 64
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.230648.11990@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 23:06:48 GMT
- References: <1hcfqdINNm2h@mirror.digex.com> <dc.726125363@ais.org> <1993Jan4.204316.26435@cunews.carleton.ca>
- Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens
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- In article <1993Jan4.204316.26435@cunews.carleton.ca> mshep@alfred.carleton.ca (Mark Shepherd) writes:
- >
- >I recently tried downloading the Novaterm 9.4 files recently,
- >converted them over to 64 format on my 1541, and when I load
- >them, I basically get zip. .SFX format files have worked with
- >me before, although with smaller archives. Is this a memory
- >problem? Or is .SFX strictly a 128 cs-dos by-product? Has
- >anyone written code which will unpack .SFX files on the 64?
- >
- >Answers to any or all of these would be appreciated.
-
- An .sfx should work on both the 64 and 128 (that's why it was invented!).
- And actually a 64 can hold a larger file than a 128 for extracting.
-
- Somehow the files were glitched before you tried to extract them. How did you
- go about converting them to 64 format?
-
- ?
-