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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: *** WARNING *** dangerous bugs in PKZIP 2.04c
- Message-ID: <3558@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 07:44:34 GMT
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- There are many bugs in PKZIP 2.04c of which two seem to be significant.
- First of all their DPMI support is very buggy, this causes crashes,
- loss of data etc. ALWAYS USE THE -) OPTION TO DISABLE DPMI. When
- you are using Windows, OS/2 2.0 or QEMM this is vital (386^MAX has
- not been investigated yet).
- Running PKUNZIP from a batch file or with REARJ also generaties problems
- for which no reason has been found yet.
- PKWARE has already promised a bug fix release (and specifically
- advises to use the -) option many times on CompuServe) but till
- now only acknowledged bugs with voluma names and the CFG file (manual
- bugs).
-
- When using -) PKZIP seems to work flawlessly and is a very impressive
- program. Especially the speed of -es remains amazing to me.
-
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- To get (many) ==> LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION SOURCES <== get lds_10.zip at
- garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/programming. Make files for Borland C are included.
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