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From: doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Error in DMS !
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.205045.13440@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 20:50:45 GMT
References: <91155.143734OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <91155.143734OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET> OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET (Cem TURGAY) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I have a DMS version 1.02. Last week, I got some .dms files from
>ab20.larc.nasa.gov (like Budbrain demo) and I unmashed it very well.
>They work fine. (I recomend especially Budbrain)
>
>Yesterday, I requested some others from same site. But I can't
>unmash them ! (with DMS WRITE RAM:.....dms)
>DMS gives an error: Info header not found. Invalid DMS archive.
>                    Fatal error !
>But, but their TEST and VIEW don't give any error. Test and view say
>this is a DMS archive, info header at d659 and archive is OK !
>But WRITE option doesn't think like TEST and VIEW !
>(Names of these archs Genesis, budvscrio, crusaders.eurochart.91)

Apparently DMS is lacking in its error handling (eg. when there is no disk
in drive 0).  I had the same problem with a friends machine.  Apparently
when there is a low memory situation, DMS 'makes up' an error.  I bet that
if you try the same archives on a machine with more memory there will be no
problem; at least that has been my experience.  I am not impressed with DMS
in the least!

>Any information will be helpfull. Thanks
>
>Cem

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