Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | display | software | multimedia | multimedia software | operating system | display device | computer icon | media | video OCR: Viewing article. . . Aminet Bans DMS! By Urban Mueller The DMS archive format is no longer permitted on Aminet since once More a virus was found in an archive of that format. Top ten reasons why the DMS archive format sucks: 10. All recent DMS versions contain (1.51 and above) contain pirated 9. DMS 1. 11, the last legal version, does not verify what it writes code. to disk. 8. DMS spreads boot block viruses. 7. DMS is all or nothing. You can't view what's inside an archive, nor can you extract only one part in the archive. 6. DMS forces you to split everything up in 880K chunks. Ever tried 5. to DMS a 3 Meg animation? It supports no HD diskettes. Even worse, tho, would be if it did. Imagine the chaos, "anybody got a HD floppy drive for me to unpack that demo?" even from people with tons of diskspace on harddisk. 4. There is no UNIX/MSDOS/anything version of it. If you got a DMS archive on a non-Amiga system, you're stuck. 3. It decompresses More slowly than LhA.
