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Opening compressed files (*.ARC)

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jeje137 Posted messages 52 Status Membre -  
cleo80 Posted messages 2 Status Membre -
Hello,

I can't open my *.ARC files with PowerArchiver, Winzip, or others.

Here is the message from PowerArchiver:
"PA cannot open this file. It does not appear to be a valid archive. If it's a SFX file, it must be in Zip format or it is corrupted. If you are trying to open a multi-volume archive, open the last part of the archive."

WinZip message:
"Message WZ13: WinZip cannot open the specified archive, read the archive directory, or if a filename is invalid. The file may not be an archive or may not exist. It may be damaged or there may be insufficient memory or disk errors."

How can I open my ARC files?
Thank you in advance.
Jérôme

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sebsauvage Posted messages 33284 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   15 684
 
I found this:
pk361.exe 119808 Feb 27 1989
This packs and unpacks .arc files (self-extracting)
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/pk361.exe
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Anonymous user
 
Do you have a link for PKARC?
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sebsauvage Posted messages 33284 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   15 684
 
This is the link I provided, it is still valid (7 years later!).

After decompressing the programs (run pk361.exe), you can decompress an .ARC archive by typing: 

pkunpak archive.arc c:\destination
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Cpassimple Posted messages 3987 Status Membre 923
 
Awesome program of yours, better than IzARC for reading and decompressing an [ARC] file.
Thanks
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riad
 
Use free arc
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Réponse 2 / 8
Yewood
 
And 8 years later ... FREEARC!
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sebsauvage Posted messages 33284 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   15 684
 
.ARC ?
It is compressed with PKARK, a program created by PKWare.
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sebsauvage Posted messages 33284 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   15 684
 
Sorry, PKARC.
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Réponse 4 / 8
jeje137 Posted messages 52 Status Membre 4
 
Sorry, but it is indeed a .ARC file and not ACE.
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BreTzeL Posted messages 59 Status Membre 24
 
hi
I found this. http://www.bykeyword.com/pages/detail13/download-13292.html
it’s a little over 2MB
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Réponse 6 / 8
sendi
 
Here is the link:

http://www.freearc.org/Download.aspx

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test ==> ok
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Karim Li Jr
 
It's going really well, my buddy... really well (y)
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Réponse 7 / 8
jeje137 Posted messages 52 Status Membre 4
 
I will try this software!
Thank you.
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Réponse 8 / 8
kneko
 
ARC ???? unless I'm mistaken, it's ACE compressed files!

So compatible with ZIP RAR, but if the file is corrupt, you can't open it, and there's strictly nothing you can do except download it AGAIN FROM ANOTHER SOURCE !!!!
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sebsauvage Posted messages 33284 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   15 684
 
No no, ARC and ACE are different.

ARC is much older (pkarc, etc.)
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