PKUNZIP glitches (formerly: Dickie)
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From Yuri Voynalovich → To All 18 March 1999
Once on March 17, 99 at 03:07:53 I saw a fight, Maxim Deputat and Andrey Isaev
were hitting each other. The reason was Dickie.
MD>>> yes, maybe that’s how it should be, but when the method is Stored,
MD>>> then
MD>>> even
MD>>> doesn’t even want to de-bet :'-(
AI>> Well, in general, it’s meant to be like that, as it seems to me, hobeta
AI>> should always be at least 1 byte but shrink
Imho not always, since you may come across well-compressed code
blocks, for example.
AI>> or was Stored with a hobeta made on purpose?
MD> Well, I don’t know, I don’t know, I’ve already had a lot of times where I had to separately
MD> uncheck such files separately.
MD> I also noticed that when there is an error when reading from the disk, everything freezes.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Imho, it’s a glaring inconvenience when unpacking the entire arcmail (and I can often come across nonsense blocks on the disk). And the name of the archive on which everything hangs
remains unknown, because even if you manage to notice this name, it
is still only displayed on the screen with a one-letter extension, and the difference
is displayed arcmail's file names are precisely in the remaining two characters :(
And why is the syntax error repeated from version to version? :)
(Lenght instead of Length - after programming in Pascal this is a bithurts
the eyes). But of course, it would be better if there were such errors, not glitches :)
But in general, PKUNZIP is rulez!
With best regards, Yuri Voynalovich.
From Andrey Isaev → To All 20 March 1999
YV> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
YV> Imho, it's a glaring inconvenience when unpacking the entire arcmail (and I
YV> can often
YV> get delusional blocks on the disk). And the name of the archive on which everything hung
YV> remains unknown, because even if you manage to notice this name, it
YV> is still only displayed with a one-letter extension on the screen, and
YV> the difference
YV> in arcmail file names is precisely in the remaining two characters :(
Well, as I already said, the glitch with hanging has already been removed, version 0.9 is here has already flown away, but I’ll probably come up with something with the name of the archive.
YV> And why is the syntax error repeated from version to version :)
YV> (Lenght instead of Length - after programming in Pascal it hurts my eyes a little
YV>). But of course, it would be better if there were such errors, not glitches :)
And all because I don’t know Russian well either :) if I don’t forget, I’ll correct it.
---───══════════════╡ Best regards, Andrey ╞══════════════────--