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- From: hamiltoj@CS.ColoState.EDU (j hamilton)
- Subject: Re: MSF Computer Challenge
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Jan25.192940.53558@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:29:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.213409.19258@news.columbia.edu> <BCD.93Jan22220725@redondo.mps.ohio-state.edu> <C1F05B.DzI@world.std.com>
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- In article <C1F05B.DzI@world.std.com> artc@world.std.com (Art Campbell) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >>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?
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- No, it is not corrupted, the one I have unzipped fine.
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- >B) Other than ftping in binary mode, are there any VAX-ftp tricks one
- > has to know about t get the file home intact?
-
- Can't tell you about other tricks, but I can say that typing BIN at
- the FTP> prompt was exactly what I needed to do to go from Cerritos
- to my unix box, and then x-modem home to my pc.
-
- Before I did that, I got all the same errors of corrupted zip file etc.
-
- >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?
-
- No, because a) the newest is compatible with 1.10 or
- b) it was zipped with 1.10.
- Don't know which, but I unzipped it with 1.02, and it is fine...
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- Jay Hamilton XV1000 with more chrome than a HARLEY
- hamiltoj@handel.cs.colostate.edu Time to change the oil AGAIN?!?!?!?
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