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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c quick impressions
- Message-ID: <3559@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 22:32:57 GMT
- References: <rdippold.726235592@cancun> <bontchev.726251313@fbihh> <1993Jan5.172729.23504@midway.uchicago.edu> <814@ulogic.UUCP>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <814@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
-
- [About PKZIP 2.04c multivolume support]
-
- >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.
-
- Actually PKZIP does the opposite. If a sector is marked BAD in the
- FAT its quick format removes the mark making it good again. A very
- bad thing for file integrity.
-
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- To get (many) ==> LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION SOURCES <== get lds_10.zip at
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