Message-Id: <m0yzKoR-000C56C@sloep116.cs.vu.nl>
Date:     Thu, 23 Jul 98 14:49:35 MET DST
From: Michel de Ruiter  <mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:  Re:  DJTAR problem
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In a letter dated Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:29:02 +0300 (IDT), Eli wrote:

About the DJTAR crash:
>For the record: I also cannot reproduce this, neither in DOS 5.0 nor
>in Windows 95.

I understand now. After some tests I ran, I finally discovered how
stupid I am sometimes. It wasn't DJTAR's fault, it turned out to be
something completely different:

I used UPX (the Ultimate Packer for eXes, beta-release, the successor
of DJP) to pack all the new DJGPP-utils. I did this to test UPX and to
conserve some space. I never had problems with it...

Until I ran DJTAR on a tar-file. DJTAR turned out to be the *only*
exe-file in djdev* that did not extract OK. That is, running `upx -d'
didn't give the old executable back (four bytes became garbage). This
caused DJTAR to crash on every tar-file.

I'll inform the UPX-authors of course. Never mind the crash, and
thanks for replying.

--
Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
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