From: jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (John Costella) Subject: Re: TECH: Trouble with UNZIP24 Cheap-VR Files Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 21:39:40 EET Gday David, > From: David Edward Wohlford > Subject: TECH: Trouble with UNZIP24 Cheap-VR Files > Date: 20 Oct 1992 14:45:49 -0700 (PDT) > > I'm having a bit of a problem with the UNZIP42 program included in the > Cheap-VR directory on Milton. It seems that even though I tried > UnZipping the files SSCAPE and VRSDemo after FTPing them in both > binary and standard mode, the UNZIP utility still wouldn't do it. > Something about extra bytes at the beginning of the files and such. > Please let me know if there is anything I can do about it. I have recently downloaded these files and unzipped them no problems with a version of pkunzip that I already had. A colleague in New Zealand has also downloaded them in the past couple of days and has used the *supplied* UNZIP42 to unzip them no problems. So ... the files are OK; there must be something in your procedure that is (one way or another) greeking them. If you are not using a DOS-command-line ftp program, what terminal program are you using, and what file transfer protocol, to get them onto your PC? Such programs often ``translate'' the character set and bugger up binary files. If these questions do not apply, then (if possible) ``capture'' a session in which you attempt to ftp and unzip the files (i.e. get a screen snapshot or log file; or, if not possible on your system, copy down by hand each step and the machine's responses). From that we might get a better feel for which program is responsible for eating your binary files. Hope this is of help, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John P. Costella School of Physics, The University of Melbourne jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au Tel: +61 3 543-7795, Fax: +61 3 347-4783 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------