Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!nowster!pm From: pm@nowster.UUCP (Paul Martin) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems) Summary: There's nothing wrong with Amstrad CPC CPM Plus Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 00:55:31 GMT References: <1991Mar19.054726.11637@actrix.gen.nz> Reply-To: pm.nowster@tharr.uucp (Paul Martin) Lines: 31 Ewen McNeill (ewen@actrix.gen.nz) wrote these words: > 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). Are you sure you are running the CPM+ supplied with your 6128? > For instance, unzip (David Goodenough) doesn't work too well on the Amstrad > drives for some reason. It works fine off my Ram disk (the patch for > which appears to have been made (autoinstall program) at a higher level > than the bug) however. [BTW, this is nothing against David's program -- > it SHOULD work perfectly on the Amstrad, and does on other systems] Voila! Non-standard system. I have an Amstrad CPC 464 with 512K banked RAM, and the 6128 ROM. I have used David Goodenough's UNZIP program every day for the last 9 months without a single problem, even with 200K ZIP files. I have just tried UCRLZH11 on a ?Q?, a ?Z? and a ?Y? file with no problems. May I hazard a guess that you're running ZCPR or similar, or something else non-standard? -- Paul Martin ..!uunet!tharr!pm.nowster | CP/M systems never die - they pm.nowster@tharr.uucp (pm111@tharr.uucp) | just get more BIOSed with age. <-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK -->