woody@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris A. Widmann) (02/17/89)
I just got my first opportunity to give PKZIP a whir, and I tried the
option that allowed for the arcing (sorry...zipping) of files in the current
sub-directory and all the sub below that. I put the disk to zip into A: which
had about 4 sub dirs on it, and proceeded to zip it.
The problem began when a "Write error drive A:" came up. I was archiving
it to E: so it shouldn't need to write to A:!!!???? So I stopped the zipping,
and examined E: to see what I could find. It had produced two files with
illegal file names such as "{h~! >[" and each file was 675 megs (yes, that's
right, MEGS!) in size. It was impossible to have that much space (only 100megs)
so I attempted to delete the files.... nope... DOS refused to accept the names.
I tried everything from QDOS to PCTools to delete them, but no go. The files
are still there, and they consume 0 bytes, so I am not particularily worried
about them...just PKZIP....I'll stick with PKPAK and PAK till I am positive
PKZIP has been fixed.
BTW: the disk in A: was write protected.
Chris Widmann (Woody) "It is a dog eat dog world out there
Internet: woody@pawl.rpi.edu and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear."
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