Re: Magic Carpet, Descent, and Dark Forces!!!

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From: mfv... Bill Corner
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:35

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In article <3hj0jk$16...@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>, lba...@meinzer.geology.ualberta.ca (Leroy Banack) writes:
> al...@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
> 
> >Betcha they use a hierarchical zip (with subdirectories). Try
> >   pkunzip -d <zipfile>
> >and see if it works better.
> 
> Ummmm, just to point out ... That's exactally what the directions
> tell you to do.  I can't understand everyone's probelms.

Ahh.  But you see if you get the zip file from a web site (which I
did) you don't get the *.bat file which unzips it for you.  So
I just unzipped it.  Without the -d switch.  And, surprise surprise,
it didn't work.  

-b-

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From: mfv...@mgohpb.go.man.ac.uk (Bill Corner)
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Subject: Re: Magic Carpet, Descent, and Dark Forces!!!
Date: 13 Feb 1995 13:35:00 GMT
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