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Article #635Re: Doom Unzip Problems?
From: rrw... Richard Ward
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 19:39
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So, I assumed I had an out of date version of pkunzip.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. :^) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The box...you opened it. We came. It's a means to summon us - Cenobites. | | Explorers in the further regions of experience. Demons to some, angels to | | others. ... No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering." - Pinhead | | rrw...@netcom.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!apple.com!amd!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!rrward From: rrw...@netcom.com (Richard Ward) Subject: Re: Doom Unzip Problems? Message-ID: <rrwardCJ9yLK.1BJ@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CJ9oIu.3Er@aggregate.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 19:39:17 GMT Lines: 35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit