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- From: artc@world.std.com (Art Campbell)
- Subject: Re: MSF Computer Challenge
- Message-ID: <C1F05B.DzI@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <LOTTO.93Jan19094055@laura.harvard.edu> <1993Jan22.213409.19258@news.columbia.edu> <BCD.93Jan22220725@redondo.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:55:58 GMT
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- bcd@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Bryan Dunlap) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan22.213409.19258@news.columbia.edu> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears) writes:
-
- >>The official release (1.00) of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation
- >>Computer Challenge is complete. This "trivial pursuit" style game is
- >>available from the MSF or by anonymous FTP from cerritos.edu. The
- >>program and all associated files are in the .ZIP archive, SKILL.ZIP.
-
- > Could some kind soul tell me how to upload this? I have no real
- > idea how to deal with archives... I haven't even really been able
- > to find any file at cerritos that I think might be this program.
-
- >I had no luck ftp'ing it to a unix box - something broke the format of
- >the zip file between vms & unix. So I ftp'd it to vms and then
- >kermited it onto my pc at home.
-
- I did the same thing and ended up with a corrupted .ZIP file that the
- zipfix utility couldn't cope with. So, to add to the previous question:
- A) is the Source .ZIP file corrupted? Can someone who can compare the
- file to a known-good one check?
- B) Other than ftping in binary mode, are there any VAX-ftp tricks one
- has to know about t get the file home intact?
- C) I've heard that files zipped with the latest and greatest version
- of PKZIP use a different compression algorythm than earlier
- versions (L&G is 2.0, I think -- most people use 1.10). Which
- means that a 2.0 compressed file can't be opened with a 1.10
- utility. What version was the original SKILLS.ZIP zipped with?
- Could this be the problem?
-
- Art
-
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