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Date:	Sun, 3 Aug 2003 15:26:21 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: ZTBold won't close

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> >Where I have seen this behavior in ZTree -- and I think it's a
> >longstanding bug or design oversight -- is that on attemtping to VIEW the
> >contents of _certain_ file archives, ZTree will go into this "trance"
> >mode, with the spinner running endlessly.

Steven replied:

> I haven't seen this since unzip32.dll support was added way back when.

Can you fill me in on what this is and how it may get used ? I searched all over,
and the only iteration of this file I could find on my system was in the defunct
WarpMedia package.

> >At this point, you have no
> >option but to *kill* the Archiver utility ZTree has called (this will be
> >PKZIP 2.5 for OS/2,
>
> pkzip is probably what's failing. ZTree can't do much when pkzip hangs.
> Infozip seems to work better for me.

They you have made InfoZip your default UnZipper ? What version -- there
are several floating around ? (I would guess the 5.50 one where they undid
the crippling of UNSHRINK support and some other feature . . . ) Since it
is not the same as PK, and does not behave in exactly the same way, is there
anything _useful_ that you give up by doing this ?

> The best way for OS/2 users to convince Kim to continue supporting the

> OS/2 version is to let him know they exist. I'm sure Kim likes me well
> enough, but he's not going to write code just for me.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> http://www.vico1.com/bbs1/config.cgi
>
> This crowd, as Kim calls them, is what defines the enhancements that make
> it into ZTreeWin.

O.K., I was dimly aware of that. Guess I'll have to start participating. I'm just
glad he has managed to keep ZTB close to the ongoing development level of
the Win-32 version.

Jordan

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