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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.archives.msdos.d,comps.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Serious PKZip 2.04 Bug - Beware
- Message-ID: <1493wB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 21:36:47 CST
- References: <rdippold.726520166@cancun>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
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- > Another bug has shown up in PKZ204C (I can't believe how buggy this
- > is), confirmed by several people (including on CompuServe) and tried
- > by me. If you backup your hard disk with the "-&" option you may lose
- > some of your data.
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- While I cant say that I have had this error (haven't tried it), it doesn't
- like OS/2 at all, so I dumped it. :( It is quite buggy it seems. Even the
- switch to disable DPMI mode still locked on my system.
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- I'll stick to 1.1 for now, and InfoZip for OS/2 in os/2 mode.
-
- Greg
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