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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: ARJ 2.0 BUGGY?!
Keywords: New Version
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.232936.1725@qualcomm.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 23:29:36 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.155821.2884@daimi.aau.dk> pingel@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Pingel Dalsgaard) writes:
>Oh yes ARJ is quite impressive, a BUG, however, has to be corrected soon
>(or else I need to re-read to "features" chapter of the documentation)!
>
>When using ARJ -t1 which is supposed to pack C program source files
>better than normal, it pack EXE files even better, by simply truncating
>the file to a size of 2Kb-3Kb!!
>
>I am mailing the author to find a solution to the problem. All other
>features seems OK, and it ranks with LHA now!

This is in the documentation... in text mode, a CTRL-Z signals the end of
a file.  When it sees this (as might happen in a binary file), that's the end
of the file.  Suggested remedy:  Don't use text mode on anything but text!

You also might want to check the speed, text mode seems to be much slower
on extraction.