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- From: hbj@engr.uark.edu (Bernard Johnson)
- Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** dangerous bugs in PKZIP 2.04c
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.191556.4759@engr.uark.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:15:56 GMT
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- nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >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.
-
-
- Strange, I use QEMM and have been using 2.04c on my BBS (where it is probably
- run at least 50 times per day or more). I have not had a single crash and the
- only options I've set are -ex. And it also runs perfectly in a batch file.
- Maybe I'm just lucky. Btw, I have the latest QEMM that was released with DV
- classic (not the newer one with DVX).
-
- Bernard
- hbj@engr.uark.edu
-