Date   : Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:28:52 GMT
From   : noc.near.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!bigwpi.WPI.EDU!ear@uunet.uu.net (Mr. Neat-O [tm])
Subject: Re: ftp-server for cpm, strange .xxx files

In article <4120@elwood.prz.tu-berlin.de> nicolai@runner.prz.tu-berlin.de
(Nicolai Leymann) writes:
>You can get cpm-stuff from The following ftp-sites:
>
>  micros.hensa.ac.uk
>  134.130.70.200     (Germany)
>  wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]  pd2:<cpm>
>  wuarchive.wustl.edu    [128.252.135.4]  mirrors/cpm/
>  watsun.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.39.1]
>
>I ftp'ed kermit this morning from a ftp-server, but I have one
>little problem: These strange endings like .pqt, dqc, .lbr, .ark
>... I think that the files are packed, but with what kind of packer ?
>Any suggestions ?

As somebody answered about the .*q* files, I'll answer about the .ark. .ark
is just an alteration of .arc, which is/was a common compression algorithm
on PC's.  The .arc extension was changed to .ark simply to differentiate the
CP/M files from the MS-Dos ones, but the compression and internal format are
exactly the same.  For DOS, you could use pkunpak to unpack/unarc the files. 
For CP/M, I believe there is a program called unarc available at the 2nd or
3rd ftp site mentioned above.  

To answer someone else's question about where to find vt100 emulators /
kermit for kaypro machines, I would direct them the the 4th ftp site listed
above (watsun...). That is the *official* distribution site for kermit, and
one may obtain there a version of kermit for just about any machine in
existance.  

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