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Article #3675Re: PKZIP 204c problems / Windows
From: Ron Dippold
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:26
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:26
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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."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!att-out!walter!qualcom.qualcomm.com!cancun!rdippold From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) Subject: Re: PKZIP 204c problems / Windows Message-ID: <rdippold.726773164@cancun> Keywords: ZIP WINDOWS Sender: news@qualcomm.com Nntp-Posting-Host: cancun.qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA References: <1993Jan11.090726.29141@mfltd.co.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:26:04 GMT Lines: 14