#De-Arc problems
4/21/88
That muffled thump you hear is the towel hitting the floor.
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I have tried to download and de-arc the PROJECTOR series of
video animation files. Several things happened strangely. I was
assured in one of the Readme files that I would get a projector
icon to click on while I was in the Workbench. I didn't. I did,
however, get a file called Projector.in. I RENAME'd this to
Projector.info and poof! the icon popped up. After that, the
program seemed to have all the modules necessary to work.
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The file for the SOAP animation wasn't so fortunate. After de-
arcing I got a series of files called "p1" thru "p15". Two files
that also popped up during de-arc were "Ex.me" and another very
similar. The Readme file assures me that you have to execute Ex.me
to "rename all the files". DOS, however, had very different ideas.
IT insists that it was "UNABLE TO LOAD EX.ME: FILE IS NOT AN
OBJECT MODULE". Both files do this.
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I'm dead in the water. I have absolutely no idea what the
system wants me to do. Projector will not run the p1 thru p15
files in their present form.
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When I do the arc/de-arc dance over on my IBM (hiss, boo),
I get all the .EXE and .COM files returned in perfect order. I
down-loaded PC-TALKC using this technique and it works very well.
(I know it's Share-Ware and yes, I paid for it).
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Any ideas??
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Captain Video