Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!zzassgl From: zzassgl@mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: problems with !extract Message-ID: <2547@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 20 May 91 13:07:45 GMT References: <1578@mike.ukc.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Reply-To: zzassgl@uts.man.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) Distribution: comp Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, UK Lines: 20 In article <1578@mike.ukc.ac.uk> mre@ukc.ac.uk (M.R.Ellis) writes: >In article Oliver Flimm >> on the !extract-window, soon a message like `unexpected error: end of file` >> appears. I already tried to eliminate spaces or add or remove a newline, but I have found that on an A310 you must clear out everything you can to make sufficient space available for !extract to process the files. Another problem: When I installed !extract the installation did not work quite right and the work.work... directory tree did not get created correctly. If !extract can't find it the program (which program?) goes into a loop with the hourglass set at 97 percent. While on the subject, when running !extract the hourglass does not seem ever to go below about 97%. It slowly steps down to 97% and then the extracted file(s) appear. -- Geoff. Lane. Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.cms UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL