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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!zooid!stramba
- From: Mike Stramba <stramba@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Can I un-arc MSDOS files on an ST?
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:04:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.220438.27231@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Sep4.150913.17933@unlinfo.unl.edu>
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- 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...)
- >
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- Should be no problem if they are .zip files or .lha
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- Stzip works fine on 'pkzipped' files.
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- An '.lzh' program should work on .lha files. (Havent' tried this though).
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- If they are '.arj' files, though, I haven't found an '.arj' program for the
- ST yet that works.
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