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Re: Doom Unzip Problems?

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From: rrw... Richard Ward
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 19:39
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In article <CJ9oI...@aggregate.com> cr...@terra.aggregate.com (Craig Peterson) writes:
>I retrieved ftp versions of doom1_1a.zip and doom1_1b.zip, transferred
>them to floppies and brought them home.  I copied them to my hard
>drive and tried to run pkunzip on them but received a message something
>like this:
>	Unzipping doom1_1a.zip
>		Error: Don't know what to do with <filename1>
>		Error: Don't know what to do with <filename2>
>
>So, I assumed I had an out of date version of pkunzip.  I then ftp'd
>something that looked like the latest pk version, called pkz361.exe.
>Instead of pkunzip, it had pkunpak.exe.  When I tried this on my
>doom files it started extracting, but the file name it was trying
>to work on was qb^1/2%%@( or something else that was highly unlikely.
>It eventually failed with a CRC error.
>Anybody else seen this?
>Do I need a different version of the PK software?
>I'd like to play this weekend, so if anyone can lend a helping hand,
>I'd sure appreciate it.
>craig

Craig, go to same place you got PKUNPAK, and download PKZ204G.EXE (or a name 
damn close to that).  The latest version of ZIP is 2.04G (hence the name).
Good luck, and good hunting!  We know you'll make your mother and me very 
proud.  :^)


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