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Re: Wintel ->Mac archive uility needed

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From: Paul Womar
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00
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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1d26sa5.muwoaofalvj2N@pwomar.demon.co.uk>,
> Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:
> 
> >Stuffit Expander (with Expander Enhancer) or Stuffit Deluxe will also
> >unzip with no problems.  I've also found newser versions of ZipIt to be
> >very unstable.
> 
> I'm using 1.3.8 with little or no problem *except* that it can crash when
> zipping archives with several hundred items. Unzipping is no problem at
> all. I've not had to create too many spanned archives but when I did some
> tests it seemed to work fine; maybe it was with an earlier version?

It's 1.3.8 that I have problems with, I think 1.3.5 was pretty bad too,
I currently use 1.2.6. To be honest I don't actually recall what
normally causes it to crash, next time I need to Zip anything I'll try
it and see what happens.
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From: Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar)
Subject: Re: Wintel ->Mac archive uility needed
Date: 1998/01/01
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