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From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
Summary: LHarc bug?
Message-ID: <1992@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 90 08:57:31 GMT
References: <14937@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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In article <14937@shlump.nac.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com writes:
>He also claims that "one prominent developer [found] that LHARC sometimes
>lost pieces of archived text files," but offers no details.  Anybody got 
>an explanation for this _AmigaWorld_ howler?

Well, I have a POSSIBLE explanation... I mean, I don't remember who the 
author is or necessarily know who he's refering to, but a reasonably 
prominent developer HAS found a repeatable circumstance in which LHarc
can lose bits of files (text files, I think, possibly WordPerfect files,
don't remember for sure).  Reid Bishop, co-author of B.A.D. and several
other (_STILL_) upcoming products, is the person I'm talking about. 

Since the bug didn't interest me too much at the time and it was a while
ago, I've forgotten the exact details but he was quite certain.  For those
of you who are interested, he can be reached through the net via the 
Compuserve gateway at 72017.1744@compuserve.com (for now, Arvada 68K,
the board he and I run listed in my .sig, is down).  He is quite busy 
at this time and so allow some time for a reply, if any is even possible
or reliable through that gateway (Larry Phillips:  Did you ever get the
messages he sent you?).  If he wants I'll post more details as he reports
them to me.

Note that in no way am I trying to defend AmigaWorld's reliablity in the
general case, which I have found to be "variable".  

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