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- From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Medusa de NetHack)
- Subject: Re: Did PKWare fix that famous 486 bug?
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- Organization: University of Hong Kong
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:29:36 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- : OK, now that the new PKZIP is out and that we all know that it is full
- : if small, annoying bugs, could anybody check whether they have fixed
- : at least that famous bug that allegedly caused them to delay the
- : release for more than a year?
- :
- : They have released a program that checks for the presence of the bug,
- : so you can check whether it exists on your machine (only 80486-based
- : machines with external memory cacheing enabled). It doesn't exist on
- : mine, so I am unable to check, but what the heck is the option '-('
- : for in PKZIP? (Except the express the impression of the users of the
- : new version, if you put a colon in front of it?)
- :
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- I run PKUNZIP (v2.04c...) on my 486DX-50, first time
- ok, second time, it REBOOTS my computer. I don't know
- if it's related to DMPI support since I run QDPMI, but
- I use PKUNZIP -3 apparently prevent it reboots...
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- Medusa
- University of Hong Kong
- H8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
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