****** Third trial also ********* On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:40:31 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hey all you web-weaving Arachnids: > Go here, and eat your heart out: > http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/index.html > SAC FTP MIRROR Hi Samuel, it took a while... but indeed some interesting looking files have been downloaded. But Arachne did store those downloaded ZIP's in a number.ftp format. How to make them usable? How to decode? ^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for any usefull comments, Bastiaan ***************************************** (This was sent when the List was down again... the problem is solved now.) Renaming did the job; renaming the extension. Start of program: PK is .zip MZ is .exe One of the goodies was Adobe pdf viewer in DOS... but the Joerg system also works FB. > Does anybody know what "SAC" stands for? > I used to know what it stands for, but that was back in > days when the Air Force was still flying B-36's <G>. > It probably stands for something else nowadays. > At the above named URL you will find hundreds and hundreds of > DOS utilities and programs and also a number of Windows programs, > all neatly organized and categorized, indexed and described. For > many of these programs you can download documentation files in > several different languages. > I downloaded LHA, version 2.55 from there. This download > included even a comprehensive manual in English! BTW, you can > also get a version 2.66 from there. I downloaded this one too. > I will not use this version 2.66 because the program's author > warns that it is a very experimental version and that it might > have bugs that could cause file corruption and other annoyances. > Version 2.55 seems quite stable and it is working fine for me. > Thanks to all you folks who helped in translating the syntax > described in my very fragmented documentation for previous > archive files of LHA that I had downloaded. > All the best, > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
