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- From: S112397@UMRVMA.umr.edu
- Subject: Re: Re: STZIP.. is the latest version here yet?
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:27:14 GMT
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- >> as we do not have the facilities on the archive machine to check them
- >> for errors and so on. If your favorite new program came in a ZIP
- >> archive, please re-pack it into ARC, ZOO, or LZH format before
- >> uploading it to atari.archive.
-
- >What a nuisance!
-
- >What percentage of files are ever corrupt any-way!? I've had problems
- >with about 2 files I've gotten from a.a and that's just because
- >I had the wrong version of the de-archiver!
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- > =============================================================================
- > | O O Computers: Not just machines, they're a way of | ||| |
- > | o life. Your computer *IS* your religion! | ||| TARI |
- > | \_/ Steve Wells - Wellington, New Zealand. | / | \ |
- > =========================WELLS_S@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ==========================
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- Sure very few files are corrupt, but some are. Also the archives could
- be wanting to just check to see if a virus, you might have had, could have
- sliped in if you don't have things like a virus checker/killer.
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- Sam Grover S112397@umrvma.umr.edu
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