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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c quick impressions
- Message-ID: <814@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:07:23 GMT
- References: <rdippold.726235592@cancun> <bontchev.726251313@fbihh> <1993Jan5.172729.23504@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan5.172729.23504@midway.uchicago.edu> roe2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev) writes:
- >command file, but I don't recall how to create an empty file without
- >"touch").
-
- from the dos prompt:
-
- C:> REM >file.000
-
- creates a 0-length file.000 :-)
-
- >We'll have to discuss this amongst ourselves. Brilliant ideas/suggestions
- >may be sent to info-zip@wkuvx1.bitnet... :-)
- >
- >>> It did handle it nicely when I threw a floppy with a bad sector at it.
- >>> It just stopped packing at that point and asked for the next disk, and
- >>> continued from there.
- >
- >>Hmmm, a better solution would be to just skip to the end of the
- >>compressed -image- of the file that contains the bad sector and to
- >>continue with the next file from the same disk...
- >
- >He was talking about packing, not unpacking. Getting rid of the bad
- >disk is the proper response when writing the archive.
-
- I don't think it got rid of the bad disk. I think it stopped using it.
- That is, if the bad sector is #20, it used 19 sectors of that disk then
- went to the next disk, leaving an almost unused disk in the middle of
- the archive.
-
- Is this the wrong way to interpret the sentance:
- "It just stopped packing at that point and asked for the next disk, and
- continued from there."?
-
- It seems it could mark the sector (which should have been done during
- formatting of the disk anyway) and try and find the next good sector,
- OR get rid of the (potentially flawed) disk and redo those 19 sectors
- on the next disk.
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