Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    Errors from ARC under VMS are often due to the file being in the wrong
    format for ARC to read.
    
    Rather than converting the file you might want to pick up a copy of
    VMSSWEEP, it now handles the ARC files in whatever file format you
    happen to have and also reads ZOO files the same way.  The program
    adapts to the archive format based upon the filename extension.  I have
    found it quite useful when the ARC utiltity complains.
    
    wayne
    

run the cvtarc program on it with the appropriate option (either u or v).

john

    John,
    
    	I tried cvtarc u and v on the files in the zoo archive and got the 
    same problem..
    
    			- Pete -

Try the version of ZOO on wjg::amiga:zoo.exe

It seems to work fine for me. If you still have trouble, I'll unpack the
fonts.zoo into an area on wjg::

john


$ zoo  -l fonts

Archive wjg$dua1:[amiga]fonts.zoo;1:
Length    CF  Size Now  Date      Time
--------  --- --------  --------- --------
    1503   0%     1503  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 842f   2001.arc
    5763   0%     5763  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 5243   amifnt.arc
   10916   0%    10916  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 29fc   basic.arc
    8065   0%     8065  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 d340   boxyft.arc
   33920   0%    33920  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 ba13   celtic.arc
   11255   0%    11255  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 088b   chicago.arc
    2689   0%     2689  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 089f   cleanibm.arc
   82591   0%    82591  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 76cd   cramer.arc
    9088   0%     9088  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 c25a   dhfnts.arc
    9136   0%     9136  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 56ff   dhfont.arc
   71638   0%    71638  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 7665   font1.arc
    1921  14%     1645  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 290f   ghostfont.arc
   16820   0%    16820  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 ab1d   maccon.arc
  175967   0%   175967  20 Nov 89 08:11:40 f309   macfont.arc
    1658   0%     1658  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 507a   nostal.arc
   16384   0%    16384  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 d316   pbfont.arc
    2028   0%     2028  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 08c7   pearl.arc
   31163   0%    31163  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 092e   picfonts.arc
    3841   0%     3841  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 c919   pirate.arc
   22536   0%    22536  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 3fcf   senate.arc
    7450   0%     7450  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 7d11   snake.arc
    6223   0%     6223  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 5ee3   stfont.arc
    7219   0%     7219  20 Nov 89 08:11:42 6a79   tekfont.arc
--------  --- --------  --------- --------
  539774   0%   539498    23 files

    re .4:
    John,
    
    Please reread .0.  The problem isn't with the zoo file, its the extracting
    the contents of some of the arc files it contains.  Some were reported as
    corrupt.  Try dearcing macfont.arc - if I remember right that was one
    of the files that shows the problem.
    
    hope this helps,
    dennis
    

Sorry, My mind's been in VMS lately :-)

I get the same error on macfont.arc - however, the "corrupt" file is the
last one in the archive (Xfile.9) and the execute.me file (which renames
al those files to something meaningfull) doesn't even reference that file.
Probably corrupt from the origin...

I didn't check the other arcs in there.

You can get *most* fonts out of there [fonts.zoo] (tons of them!), what's 
a couple corrupt ones :-)


john

    I have had problems with VMS ARC and sweep both complaining about crc
    errors only to down load them and use PKAX with no problems.  I have
    not tried the files in question but apparently VMS ARC cannot handle
    the newer compression if they were created with the PKarc series of
    programs.
    
    Alan
    

    I am the one that originally uploaded the fonts.  I got the arc's with
    the last file corrupted off Compuserve.  This was very early in my
    downloading career.  I was using Xomdem from VT200, and I thoutht the
    arc's on Compuserve were corrupt, since I got other arc's without a
    problem.
    
    But as reply .6 indicated it is only the last file in the arc that is
    corrupted.  You can still get alot of useful fonts.  As to the
    macfonts, I have never tried to use them.
    
    Don't forget to run fixfonts after you load the new fonts.

I unzooed this on my Amiga and then tried to de-arc, but the 3 i tried
all had bad headers (2001, Basic, Cramer). Anyone else havinbg
success?

 mark