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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c quick impressions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.092414.17223@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1993Jan6.092256.11613@uwasa.fi> <1igcumINNiip@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1993Jan7.061606.8383@uwasa.fi>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:24:14 GMT
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- Here is one more feature to ponder. I use a screen scrollback
- buffer (buffit30) which captures bios screen writes to a buffer.
- Very handy for some purposes. The new pkzip confuses it. The only
- things that get sent are the eolns, so that if you look at the
- scroll-back buffer you are faced with blank pages. Perhaps 2.04
- uses some kind of a weird mix of bios and direct screen writes. A
- frustrating feature. I wish there were some method of turning off
- the direct writes.
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- It begins to look that we are looking at a product that is
- unfinished in more respects than it should be, despite the extended
- waiting period :-(. I am sure that there is much sophisticated code
- within 2.04 to make it an advanced compressor and to make it fast,
- and to get the last ounce efficiency out of the PC's individual
- configuration. But for an ordinary end users it is the practial
- things that count, just like the many small bugs that already have
- been reported. They are important however progressive the product
- otherwise.
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- Since we factually seem to find ourselves in the postition of
- happily drooling beta testers, let's hope that these reports are
- seriously taken into consideration to mutual advantage.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
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