RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Rick Conn) (08/05/88)
The fix to the problem reported yesterday has been announced.
The following message documents the location of PKARC 3.61 on
SIMTEL20.
Note: I've seen this kind of thing happen before, and I've personnally
adopted an attitude that I'm not willing to jump in immediately and
start using the new version. I tend to let others do that, wait a while and
listen for any problems, and then upgrade after the next version or two
if there are no problems reported. The INFO-IBMPC email list is a good place
to listen for problems with such software. No slight on any of the software
developers, but there is a natural human tendency to try to fix problems
like this (especially when they receive a lot of attention) as soon as possible,
and, as the complexity of a program grows, fixing one problem may
introduce others (one of the advantages to good software design in Ada is
to overcome such problems, right?).
Message follows.
Rick
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Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 4-Aug-88 22:14:13
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1988 22:14 MDT
Message-ID: <KPETERSEN.12419904711.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Sender: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA
From: Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
To: Info-IBMPC@WALKER-EMH.ARPA, Info-HZ100@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA
Subject: PKARC version 3.61 now available from SIMTEL20
Phil Katz has just released version 3.61 of his PKARC/PKXARC programs
to make and extract files from ARCchives.
This is an upgrade/bug fix and is intended to replace 3.6. Please
discontinue use of 3.6. There are some potentially serious problems
which have been corrected in 3.61.
I downloaded the new version from Phil's BBS in order to assure its
authenticity. It is now available via standard anonymous FTP as:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>
PK361.EXE.1 BINARY 119598 069FH
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M and MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20.ARPA [26.0.0.74]
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