Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!urz.unibas.ch!fritz
From: fritz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.120904.1214@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 6 Dec 90 11:09:04 GMT
References: <4512@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
Lines: 21

In article <4512@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU 
(Kartik Subbarao) writes:
> Something went fishy the other day when it appeared that all of my .ZIP
> files were corrupted for some unknown reason. The reason is kind of odd,
> and thats why I'm asking why. The general way I used to create ZIP files
> of everything in a directory was to do this:
> 
> pkzip zipfile *.*
> del *.*
> qu zipfile.zip # i.e unerase the just created ZIP file
> 
> however, it appears that deleting and undeleting a zip file somehow changes
> it because afterwards when I do a pkunzip -t (or whatever the flag is that
> verifies the stuff) pkzip finds problems that pkzipfix can't even fix.


Some files seem to be changed by deleting and unerasing with Norton's QU.
I have discovered that when I wanted to unerase an emTeX font-library file.
I couldn't use it anymore afterwards.

	Oliver Fritz, University of Basel, Switzerland