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- From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
- Message-ID: <3_800_842_fidonet2b2c2e38@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ZIP
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
- Date: 14 Dec 92 07:46:08 GMT
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- Original to: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl
- In a message of <07 Dec 92 10:48:34>, qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (3:713/602)
- writes:
-
- W>> Do not archie files with ST-ZIP v2.0 It's very fast as doing
- W>> it, and eveb faster at extracting, but it's compression routines
- W>> seem to have a glitch in them. They don't work most of the
- W>> time!
- q>
- q> I don't have any problems with it. Could you describe the glitch more
- q> precisely?
-
- Ask vincent yourself via fido for more details - basically the problem
- manifests itself as corrupted files in an archive (usually only a small
- number - the actual size of the file has proven to be unimportnat - it's
- just that a larger file is more likely to be hit by the bug 8)
-
- q> YHS:QSI!
-
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