Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj From: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems) Keywords: Amstrad, CP/M+, UNCR, UNCRLZH, bug, BIOS Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 08:43:43 GMT References: <1991Mar19.054726.11637@actrix.gen.nz> Organization: Ian Justman's IBM-PC Lines: 27 ewen@actrix.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill) writes: > And YOU don't really know what you are talking about. I have had the > same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128. The problem he > describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128. There is a bug (somewhere) > in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is > no Bios source available to my knowledge). (stuff deleted along the way) > FTR, I have successfully used UCRLZH to uncrunch files (.?Z?), so it > definately does work. This was not off the floppy drives on the > Amstrad, however (this is where the bug is). > > Sorry, everyone, that this has got this long. It was intended to rebut > the flame, but the opportunity to seek others opinion on the problem > couldn't be missed. > > Any useful suggestions are welcomed, and any off-the-cuff flames will be > dealt with in a suitable manner (ie, probably ignored!). My deepest apologies. I guess I assumed that all BIOSes were pretty much well-behaved and it seems to be restricted to some BIOSes. Also, it probably has something to do with the fact that those computers are running CP/M Plus, which I've heard can be flakey at times. That's why I stick with my CP/M 2.2 stuff (highly uprated w/ZCPR33 and stuff like that...)