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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: .ZOM archives -- DONT USE IT!!!
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.014734.5816@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 26 Apr 91 01:47:34 GMT
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colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:

>In article <29668@rouge.usl.edu>, cac5961@rouge.usl.edu (Castor Christian A)
>writes:
>>     I have a question, though.  When I finished compressing the Walker_I
>> demo, the zoom program GURU'ed my amiga (at the moment I tried to
>> quit it).   Anyone has experienced this problem?

>The zoom program is extremely unreliable, please don't use it!
>I got gurus with on a lot of occasions, crunching or decrunching.
>Worst case yet, on some occasions it crunches fines, then guru when
>decrunching!
>It is a pity since Zoom is faster than DMS at low compression, and at the same
>more efficient than the highest compresion mode of DMS. But for now DMS is still
>the only valid choice for disk archiving... Nobody seemed to have any problem
>with dms. If zoom comes out with a bug-free version, I will register it,
>otherwise I will have to register for dms.

>Apparently, zoom GURUs on disks containing already compressed files, such as
>demo or games. Apparently the Zoom programmer wasn't aware that compressing
>compressed data makes it expand, and may be overflowing some buffers...

>So:

>DO NOT USE ZOOM v4.1!!!

>PS: do you know if the zoom author is on the net?

Well, try this: DON'T USE ZOOM FROM WORKBENCH
It works pretty well from CLI, but it crashes alot from WB

>-- 
>Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM
>Phone:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE.


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