CompuServe Messages

Bill, Oh dear…you're going to hate this. PKAX.ARC is an ARCHIVE file and needs to be extracted using ARC.EXE which is in LIB 16, and will run as downloaded. Unfortunately, there has been a proliferation of archivers, crunchers and so forth and each needs a different extraction program get the executables out. We used to require all our files be in ARC format, but along came ZOO files which provided better compression. Then ARC lost it's support and ZOO got even better. Then along came ZIP and LHARC and WHARP and LHWARP'ed files and so forth. There was no way we could force a single archive standard any more, so there are several available. We do have the file ARCHLP.EXE (also executable after download) that explains what the various archive programs are, where to get them and how to use them. It explains what the various filename extensions means. I'm sorry it seems like we keep telling you you've got to get another extraction utility, but believe it or not…I *think* you've got them all by now…and once you've got them you'll not need to go thru this garbage again. Don