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From: gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: problems with SMARTDRV and PKZIP
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Date: 17 Jan 91 14:43:36 GMT
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I remember a time when I used PKZIP on a machine running PC-Cache
(part of PC Tools I think). The ZIP files created were all corrupt
as well. It must have something to do with how PKZIP accesses the disk.
Perhaps Phil Katz (if he's on the net) can shed some light.

These days I use LHARC... although PK software is great, LHARC has the
advantage of being in the public domain, including source, and thus
usable across operating systems. Whether it suffers from the same problem
I don't know, but I doubt it.

Graham.


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