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[Eddie Duffy]

Sorry about all the trouble people are having here. I've now created a torrent as follows:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2999568

It would be handy if anyone who's managed to successfully get this can jump on and help seed, as my speed is going to be a bit of a crawl till about midnight tonight.

Eddie.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "postscriptxyz" <postscriptxyz@...> wrote:
>
> John.  I've tried opening in Quicktime and also get no sound.  I use VLC to play avi files, which has an inbuilt repair facility for what it calls "broken files", so I can only suggest you try it.  It's a free download and a Google on "Mac VLC Player" should get you to the relevant page.
> 
> Pad
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Gray <jt.gray@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Pad - well, managed to get as far as generating an avi file -  
> > which opens up OK in Quicktime.  But with no sound!!  any ideas?
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > On 29 Sep 2009, at 16:08, postscriptxyz wrote:
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > I'm a Mac user and after a bit of fiddling, managed to extract the  
> > file. My download of the five parts appended an extension of .txt to  
> > parts 2-5. Using Command+i on each of these, I removed the .txt part  
> > of the filenames in the "Names & Extension" box. I then used MacHacha  
> > to join the parts. Clicking on the resultant zip file produced the  
> > required avi. There was still a minor problem opening this, but the  
> > VLC software I use to view avi files repaired it OK.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Pad
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Gray <jt.gray@> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I don't know about any other Mac users, but I have had no success.
> >  > The files appear to download successfully, but any attempt to unzip
> >  > them produces error messages - file may be corrupted, etc.
> >  >
> >  > John Gray
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > On 29 Sep 2009, at 12:27, Eddie Duffy wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Hi Steve,
> >  >
> >  > I'll try and set up a torrent tonight if anyone is still having
> >  > problems. However, it seems that all you need to do is to concatenate
> >  > all five files together in order to create a single bog-standard, zip
> >  > file. If you're running Linux (and maybe OS X?), this can be done  
> > very
> >  > simply with the cat command, but in Windows, do the following:
> >  >
> >  > 1. From an Explorer window, create a new file called Autobahn.txt in
> >  > the same directory as the five downloaded files.
> >  > 2. Double-click on Autobahn.txt and paste the following line into it:
> >  >
> >  > copy /b Travels*.zip.??? Autobahn.zip
> >  >
> >  > 3. Save and close Autobahn.txt.
> >  > 4. Rename Autobahn.txt to Autobahn.bat. If you get a warning, confirm
> >  > that you wish to proceed.
> >  > 5. Double-click on Autobahn.bat. A DOS window should fire up and  
> > start
> >  > processing.
> >  > 6. When the window closes, you should have a new file called
> >  > Autobahn.zip, which you should be able to open with Winzip, 7-Zip or
> >  > any similar program.
> >  >
> >  > Hope this works,
> >  >
> >  > Eddie.
> >  >
> >  > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "so_it_goes_2512" <so_it_goes_2512@>
> >  > wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > Hi Eddie
> >  > >
> >  > > If you could please because I just cannot get this to work and it's
> >  > driving me up the wall (no pun intended). I've used Win Rar, 7 Zip,
> >  > even Hj Split on it and it just fails every time.
> >  > >
> >  > > Thanks
> >  > > Best wishes
> >  > > Steve [TK]
> >  > >
> >  >
> >
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