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- From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: More severe bugs in PKZIP 2.04c.
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 12:38:16 GMT
- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
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- In article <3561@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >I made a zip file of all cpp files included in Borland C++ 3.1 +AF
- >examples directory (-r -p). I tried to extract bitma*.cpp. Strangely
- >enough this fails with an CRC error but ONLY if there is already some
- >bitmap.cpp in the current directory! If the current directory is not
- >empty no error is produced. The test integrity option generates
- >no problems.
-
- I remember having a similar problem with version 1.1 as well (i.e.
- using -rP to store a directory tree). It would work sometimes, but
- other times the zipfile directory would just seem to be wiped out and
- unrecoverable. This is one of the main reasons (plus multivolume
- support) I switched to ARJ for personal use.
-
- >I am beginning to wonder how well tested this program is. And I
- >wonder even more about what PKWARE did during all those delays.
-
- Me too. I was under the impression that the program had been pretty
- solid and ready-to-go for a long time, and the only thing holding up
- its release was the obscure 486 DMA bug. Looks like there may be a
- number of other serious bugs as well. I think I'll wait for v2.1
-
- Paul
-
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- Paul Secinaro
- pss1@kepler.unh.edu
- Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
- UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
-