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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

243.0. "Arc16.Bin Troubles" by HOUSE::FRACTAL () Tue Jan 06 1987 03:25

    
    
    Hello, I have a problem. I downloaded ARC16.bin using kermit binary.
    I got the correct size of 63032 Bytes. I then downloaded display.arc
    and came up with 169500 Bytes. I copied run,arc16.bin and display.arc
    to a blank disk. I entered 1> arc16.bin e display.arc
    It printed Extracting file brick.img and stopped. I figured well,
    Ill give it five minutes. 15 Minutes later, no result. Any ideas?
    
    Thanks,
    
    
    
    
    
    Ps. Has anybody gotten buy the force field in Artic Fox?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
243.1	Check a few things	AUTHOR::MACDONALD		`Tue Jan 06 1987 12:32`	13
	Did you receive an error message anywhere? If not, try arcing a short text file and then dearcing just to check the integrity of the arc program you have. Did you have enough disk space? You run arc on display.arc in ram: on a standard 512K Amiga. You will run out of memory and should receive a Guru in V1.1 of Wb. V1.2 will give you a Guru but permits recovery by cancelling the operation. Likewise for running this from SYS: where SYS: is your Wb disk. There is not enough room. Make sure you set current directory to a fairly spacious disk.
243.2	Be back shortly	HOUSE::FRACTAL		`Tue Jan 06 1987 19:36`	5
	well the disk was empty except for those commands i listed. Ill try copying arc16.bin to ram: along with run and cd. Ill let you know. Thanks,
243.3	I hate arcs	HOUSE::FRACTAL		`Wed Jan 07 1987 17:29`	13
	No luck here. I tried downloading with kermit binary xon xoff 8 bit 2 stop bits and no parity. I listed the files in the arc and it said I had a bad header on each of the files. I downloaded it with xmodem with the same settings as a binary. Again i had the bad header. I stripped the file and still no luck. My manual (Atalk v1.1) Says that you dont need to chop arc files. So i didn't. ANd still "Bad header" paid me a visit. Im now going to try xmodem/crc mode with no stripping and no xon-xoff. Ill get back to you. Can you think of anything im doing wrong? Is anybody else out there using Atalk v1.1? thanks,
243.4	DeARC Question.	SNO78C::METRO_OA		`Fri Feb 06 1987 05:10`	11
	I have ARC but no documentation for it (whats new?). Could someone tell me if its possible to give the program a destination file argument (soas to specify a different dir or volume) or must you have the ARC program and its ARC'd file within the destination directory? Thanks in advance and Regards from D.U. Rob
243.5		TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Fri Feb 06 1987 05:35`	8
	Re: .4 I believe that the files are always extracted to the current directory. However, the ARC file need not be in the connected directory. Just specify a full file path in the ARC file name. By the way, if you type the ARC commands without any arguments, it prints a help page.