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- From: keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating )
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Some questions/comments...
- Message-ID: <440@casemo.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 05:06:55 GMT
- References: <436@casemo.UUCP> <l94vl1INNrft@blox.cs.utexas.edu>
- Organization: Dowty Communications, Inc.
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- In article <l94vl1INNrft@blox.cs.utexas.edu>, marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:
-
- > The answer to your question #1 is that you shouldn't have to worry about
- > reinstalling your whole OS. I don't know how you got the older version
- > of UNPACK, nor is it that important. The problem you had was that when
- > the files are PACKed, the PACK program places the PACK version number in
- > the header of the PACKed file. Then, only the corresponding version of
- > UNPACK can UNPACK the file. The program is IBM internal, and not too bright,
- > I'm afraid. Even when we ship new versions of software with no change to the
- > PACK/UNPACK program they create a new version of PACK/UNPACK. As a result,
- > you can have the exact same UNPACK program (but with a different version
- > number) which is unable to function on a file!
-
- Would this account for the pre 1.3 release date on my UNPACK, though? Or the
- different file sizes between all three versions? Could some of those free
- distribution copies have had some none-release code in them?
-
- > Fortunately, I believe that there is a trend within IBM to go towards more
- > industry standard compression programs in the future.
-
- Thank goodness... I noticed that Phil Katz's pkzip2 and pkunzip2 programs
- were included with the Extended Servicese 1.0 box. A nice touch.
-
- > But I doubt this should be a problem for your OS install. Could you just
- > have had an old copy of the program (UNPAK) lying around??
-
- My immediate thought was that it was an old version of the program, but that
- didn't pan out, as the hard drive was reformatted to run OS/2 2.0 with HPFS.
- Unless the OS/2 installation program actually loaded the original 1.3 UNPACK,
- and then resaved it after installing 2.0, the UNPACK should be the one that
- came with my OS/2. I'll be checking the install diskettes tomorrow to see
- what the dates on them are.
-
- John Keating
-
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