Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: vkiller de-ARCing error
Message-ID: <1623@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 88 23:43:12 GMT
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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I have had trouble de-ARCing  VKILLER.  Before bulletin boards post it,
they shoudl check to see that they can de-ARC what they have.
Perhaps it should be posted again.

Here is an edited transcript of a session here, recently:
You can see that a failure in the test of cyclic redundancy codes (CRC).
     

 Script started on Mon Jun  6 19:29:24 1988
 
 % arc v vkiller.arc
 Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
 ============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
 README            1575  Crunched   33%      1060   2 Jun 88   7:22a  8b5c
 VKILLER.PRG      55957  Crunched   44%     31593   2 Jun 88   7:23a  e085
 VKILLER.RSC      14316  Crunched   49%      7328   2 Jun 88   7:23a  9838
         ====  ========            ====  ========
 Total      3     71848             45%     39981  
 
 % arc t vkiller.arc
 Testing archive...
     File: README        okay
     File: VKILLER.PRG   WARNING: File VKILLER.PRG fails CRC check
     File: VKILLER.RSC   okay
 2 errors detected
 
 %

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