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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:14:54 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: more with error codes: ZTree + PKZ

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--- Steven Levine wrote:

> Well, it should be obvious to you that a DOS app
> will never be able to
> handle anything but 8.3 filenames. However, I think
> you have a rare typo
> here. 2.50 is the OS/2 version.

Hi Steven,

Yes, I was referring to the OS/2 version, 2.50.

> that your application choices are non-optimal.
> Pkzip for OS/2 is antique.
> InfoZip's zip.exe is current and maintained and just
> works better.

Quite some time ago, I may have run into some things
PK supported that InfoZip did not, accounting for why
I stuck with it ? Or, maybe I was just a lot more
familiar with PK . . . . I do know that running
InfoZip from a command line with its abundant switches
and sprawling syntax is (to me) cruel and unusual
punishment); I would probably not want to run either
of them without the great convenience of a managing
shell such as ZTree provides.

> To me the answer is obvious. Edit archiver.bb2 to
> default to InfoZip and
> it will just work.

Yeah, I can do that.

> You still use the brain-dead cmd.exe, IIRC.

As opposed to what ? 4OS2 ?

btw, did anything jump out at you in those last couple
files you asked for, re the laptop issue ?
Will there be a May Help Desk session, after all ?

Regards,

Jordan

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