Re: STZIP.. is the latest version here yet?

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From: davidli
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:14

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In article <1jn10rINN87b@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Steve Wells) writes:
>What a nuisance!
>
>What percentage of files are ever corrupt any-way!?  I've had problems
>with about 2 files I've gotten from a.a  and that's just because
>I had the wrong version of the de-archiver!

A fairly low percentage of files are corrupt at the atari.archive site. That is
because we make an attempt to test each archive BEFORE it goes into its
respective subdirectory.  As an example, I could not move three very
interesting .LZH archive files into the Newitems directory because each and
every one of them produced CRC errors ... one of these files was close to a
megabyte in size.  I can just imagine the e-mail we would get it you downloaded
an FTP'd file that size to your ST at 1200 baud, only to find out that the file
was corrupted!

Until there is a UNIX-based version of unZIP that can handle all .ZIP files
(and an ST-based version which can do the same ... I haven't checked out the
latest STZip 2.1 file at home, yet), .ZIP archives are big trouble waiting to
happen, at least on the Atari side of things.

-- David Paschall-Zimbel

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