Re: Doom Unzip Problems?

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From: sama... Sean Matheis
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 04:16

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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So, I assumed I had an out of date version of pkunzip.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.

Did you binary transfer the files from (a) ftp site and (b) host to local
disk?
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