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- From: sdrumm@cs.umr.edu (Scott Drumm)
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP problems?
- References: <1993Jan8.212936.1@opie.bgsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:25:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.212936.1@opie.bgsu.edu> ghensle@opie.bgsu.edu writes:
- >I downloaded PKZIP 2.04C and I am wondering if anyone else is having any
- >troubles with it? Under straight DOS 5.0 it has worked fine (arj still
- >compresses better for me) but under OS/2 it hangs while compressing files. I
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- It has some severe problems w/ it's EMX/XMS/DPMI management routines...It's
- taken down one BBS I'm on for a day when the Sysop replaced his 1.10 release
- w/ 2.04C...I uploaded a .QWK mail packet, and PkZip conflicted w/ QEMM &
- Lantastic.
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- In the OS/2 arena...I've had it hang when compressing files also, but as
- always, I could kill the process. Also, when I run it w/o parms. to display
- the help screens, it displays them just fine, but kills the VDM when it
- exits!
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- Suppozedly, disabling it's usage of the DPMI helps, but I haven't bothered
- I switched back to Info-Zip/UnZip.
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