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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 204c problems / Windows
- Message-ID: <rdippold.726773164@cancun>
- Keywords: ZIP WINDOWS
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- References: <1993Jan11.090726.29141@mfltd.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:26:04 GMT
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- sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood) writes:
- >I am having problems, running PZKIP in a dos window on my 386/40.
- >It happly zip's up the files, but when it finishes, windows hangs and a
- >message box pops up, saying "Serious Disk Error".
- >I am using DOS 5.0, Himem.sys, and smartdrv.exe... There are no other tsrs
- >loaded in. Any Idea's ?
-
- Turn off DPMI ("-)") and possibly 386 mode ("-3"). Usually DPMI does
- it. Be warned that this thing is riddled with over a dozen bugs known
- already, some of them serious.
- --
- If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up
- to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to
- say, "I swallowed it. So sue me."
-