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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:49:32 EDT
- From: "Arnold G. Gill" <GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92315.194932GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: bug in PKLite 1.15??
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- I just picked up version 1.15 of PKLite and converted all of my
- compressed .COM files to the newer version. (Don't ask why, it's just a
- thing that I do.) Anyway, it seems that none of the programs out there
- that check for executable compressions are able to detect version 1.15 of
- PKLite of .COM files, including the CHK4LITE that PKWare includes in the
- PKLite distribution!
-
- So what is going on? The detectors I use (CHK4COMP and CHK4LITE) have
- no problem with the .EXE files, just the .COM files. Just to make things
- stranger, PKLite itself is able to detect whether a .COM file has been
- compressed by itself. Also, I have noticed that version 1.15 compresses
- the identical .COM file to 2 bytes more than version 1.14. No idea if this
- is related. Any ideas?
-
- This is not machine or TSR dependant. I tried it on an AT and XT, with
- a full set of TSRs and with a blank memory.
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