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From: whitten@netcom.com (David Whitten)
Subject: Re: Can someone help a clueless newbie with decompression?
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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 20:05:39 GMT
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OBRIAN PAUL F (obrian@ucsu.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
: I'm hoping this question hasn't been asked a zillion times...
: I'm still a relative newbie to the Internet, so I may be missing something
: really obvious, but I'm having trouble with downloading Curses and the "zip"
: interpreter. The file transfer seems to happen without any problem, but the
: interpreter is a compressed file ("zip.zip"), and I have no idea how to 
: decompress it! The if-archive/download-tools directory at ftp.gmd.de seems
: to have a zillion decompressing tools for the PC (which is what I use),
: but I can find no indication which one I should run to open up the .zip
: files from the archive, specifically zip.zip. Moreover, the ones I have
: tried (arj and pk) seem to have no apparent documentation, and my poor
: machine locks up tight any time I try to just run their executable files.
: I'm a major devotee of IF, and I've heard so much about Curses... I really
: want to play it! Can someone PLEASE help me? My email address is
: "obrian@ucsu.colorado.edu", and if I haven't been specific enough in    
: describing my problem, I'd be happy to elaborate further in correspondence.
: I'd really appreciate some helpful advice! :) 

: Thanks,
: Paul


I guess it is important to be sure you are running on the machine the code
was written for. I believe pkzip only works on MSDOS IBM machines.
I believe ARJ is an AMIGA, IBM PC type program. (different executables on
each)
if the name of a file ends with .zip it should be decompressed with UNZIP
or pkunzip.
however, I think there is a Zork Interpreter Program that also is named ZIP

so it may have files that end with .zip, tho I thought they were .z3 or .z5
filese.


David Whitten
