Re: ZIP

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From: michael smith
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:46

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Original to: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl
In a message of <07 Dec 92 10:48:34>, qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (3:713/602)
writes:

 W>> Do not archie files with ST-ZIP v2.0 It's very fast as doing
 W>> it, and eveb faster at extracting, but it's compression routines
 W>> seem to have a glitch in them. They don't work most of the
 W>> time!
 q> 
 q> I don't have any problems with it. Could you describe the glitch more
 q> precisely?

Ask vincent yourself via fido for more details - basically the problem
manifests itself as corrupted files in an archive (usually only a small
number - the actual size of the file has proven to be unimportnat - it's
just that a larger file is more likely to be hit by the bug 8)

 q> YHS:QSI!

\`miff`                                                       /|\

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