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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: <3574@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 16:58:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.172729.23504@midway.uchicago.edu> <814@ulogic.UUCP> <3559@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <834@ulogic.UUCP>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <834@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
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- >In article <3559@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
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- >: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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- >AAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCKCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!
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- >Tell me you are joking!!! Please!?!????!?!?!???????
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- Unfortunately I was NOT joking here. This problem is likely to be fixed in
- the next release of PKZIP BTW.
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- To get (many) ==> LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION SOURCES <== get lds_10.zip at
- garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/programming. Make files for Borland C are included.
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