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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
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Subject: Re: ShrinkIt bug?
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Date: 8 May 89 04:23:20 GMT
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>I too have had a problem with Shrinkit although it's a different one.  When
>either adding files to an archive or simply Shrinking files into a new
>archive, if you run out of disk space the entire archive is effectively
>trashed since you lose many of the files in the archive.  For example, an
>archive that have over 40 records in it was reduced to five records although
>it was still 1300 blocks long.


v2.01 and v2.02 should no longer have that problem.  The bug you describe
existed up into v1.1, but quite honestly, it really _should_ work, because
the same situation happened to me a week ago and everything was fine...


>Douglas J. Hill        
>   djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu     

andy

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