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- From: tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: MSF Computer Challenge
- Message-ID: <tcora-250193131827@b329-gator-1.pica.army.mil>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:30:14 GMT
- References: <LOTTO.93Jan19094055@laura.harvard.edu> <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)
- wrote:
- >
- > 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?
-
- The source file appears to be OK. I got it by binary FTP-ing it to my Mac,
- then unzipping it with UnZip 2.0 (again on the Mac), then transferring it
- to a 720k formatted 3.5" DOS diskette, using Apple File Exchange. I popped
- it into a PS/2, did c: and typed skill and it worked (that about describes
- my entire knowledge of DOS, btw:-}).
-
- > B) Other than ftping in binary mode, are there any VAX-ftp tricks one
- > has to know about t get the file home intact?
-
- Make sure that you download the sucker to your PC in binary form as well.
- Explicitly tell kermit or zmodem or whatever that you are doing so. At both
- ends.
- tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
-