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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c quick impressions
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:53:09 GMT
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- rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- >Also, info-zip folks: several files which I downloaded from
- >archive.toronto.edu which had been packed with Info-Zip failed with
- >CRC errors when I unpacked them with PKUnzip 2.04c. Unzip handled the
- >same files with no problem. I don't have any files I know were packed
-
- I take it all back! It does happen, yes, but only when I run it from
- a batch file. It does happen with Info-Zip made files, but also with
- PKZIP made files. Interesting, eh?
-
- pkunzip -o -d 669bliss.zip
-
- works fine, but if I put that exact same line in a batch file called
- a.bat and run "a" I get all sorts of strange errors, and even
- sometimes it asks me to "Insert disk #1"! I can get that last one
- pretty reliably as well by forcing a disk and path, as in:
-
- pkunzip -o -d c:\zip\669bliss.zip
-
- Even without running it in a batch file.
-
- Looks like no more mucking around with the validation checks! Whew...
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