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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How does Newzap work?
Summary: VDK: has a broken Seek().
Keywords: newzap flakey weird is it me?
Message-ID: <10234@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 20:44:15 GMT
References: <5079@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <5121@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
Lines: 15

+-- dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) writes:
| In article <5079@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, I wrote that I was having trouble
| using newzap.  The symptoms were general bizarreness, including that it
| didn't do anything useful, except by accident or coincidence.  The problem
| turns out to be that I was using it on files in my vdk: device.  Apparently
| it chokes on them, while working just fine with ram: and floppies.  

I discovered when working on the IFF library that VDK: has a problem with
seeking.  It doesn't correctly return the new position after each seek, so
if NewZAP was expecting this information it would probably go berserk.

The author apparently knows about the problem.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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