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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:05:46 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: ZTBold won't close

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In <3F2956CC.39709618@pacbell.net>, on 07/31/03
at 09:49 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>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.

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

>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.

>Steven, you have the inside track on this. Maybe you can put a word in
>to Kim ?

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.

Steven

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