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- From: wabe@ukc.ac.uk (W.A.B.Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Can I un-arc MSDOS files on an ST?
- Message-ID: <1582@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:21:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.150913.17933@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1992Sep6.112232.1742@newstand.syr.edu>
- Reply-To: wabe@ukc.ac.uk (W.A.B.Evans)
- Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- In article <1992Sep6.112232.1742@newstand.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.150913.17933@unlinfo.unl.edu> ganderso@unlinfo.unl.edu (gary anderson) writes:
- >>I want to get some games via FTP for my young nephew who has an
- >>IBM machine. My machine is an Atari ST.
- >>Can I un-arc these IBM files on my ST, as I would an ST file? Or will
- >>I need special software? Or can I even do it at all?
- >>(I know the easiest thing would be to get the files and the appropriate
- >>unarc program and let him do it, but I know the procedure would
- >>confuse him even more than it's confusing me...)
- >>Thanks!
- >>Gary Anderson
- >>ganderso@unlinfo.unl.edu
- >
- >I know this can be done...I've done it using DCExtract.
- >--Gerry
- >ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu
-
- And some time ago, I managed to hack the Public Domain C-code
- for the IBM "DEBOO" program such that it compiled with Mark Williams C
- and, of course, ran on an ST.
-
- Since then I've used this DEBOO.PRG many times to obtain the
- IBM archived files - with no complaints.
-
- If a FEW feel the need for this I'd be happy to send it to them
- (or if MANY want it, I'd send it to a.a)
-
- W. Alan B. Evans
- [ wabe@ukc.ac.uk ]
-