Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!akgua!cpsc53!cpsc55!jio From: jio@cpsc55.UUCP (James Odom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PK ARC, Another View Message-ID: <118@cpsc55.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:05:18 EDT Article-I.D.: cpsc55.118 Posted: Thu Jul 9 16:05:18 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 10:21:26 EDT References: <287@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com> Organization: ATT-IS CPSC, Denver, CO Lines: 51 I do not know what is causing the problems you are experiencing. My PC is PC6300, 640K, 10-M hard drive, 360K floppy. Currently, I am using MS-DOS 3.2. The only problems I have had using either ARC512 or PK[X]ARC on any file has been related to bad or incomplete copies getting to our site. I have patched COMMAND.COM under MS-DOS 2.11 for the maximum environment space I could have running 2.11. I have recently upgraded to MS-DOS 3.2 R1.02 and have the maximum environment space I can get. I have no problem using the PK[X]ARC programs. I have several TSR programs that load from the autoexec.bat file. After booting the PC, I have about 475K free memory. I did have an occasional problem under DOS 2.11 with programs not freeing up the memory when they terminated. I have not noticed this problem running DOS 3.2. > insufficient memory There are times that I get this message. Usually because of what I am doing. Working in UNIX(TM AT&T), I manage to use up all of the processes available to me quite often. This is carried over to the PC. If I run a word processor(MS WORD Copyright Microsoft), leave it using the "Library" "Run" COMMAND, execute a communications program and log into the 3B5, upload the file I have created in WORD, print it, and ,while waiting for the file to print, try to drop back into DOS on the PC I often get the 'insufficient memory' message. > > After getting the software to work, I then discovered that it apparently > (correct me if I am wrong) can't deal with acrhive files outside the > current directory. And, as if that weren't enough, PKXARC *requires* that > you preface switches with a "/", and doesn't even check the value of > SWITCHAR. > I have not experienced any problem un-arcing files in other directories nor even in sub-directories on drive A: to the current directory on drive C:. I have SWITCHAR set to "-" with no problems. > > Chris Seaman > .signatures? We don't need no steenking .signatures! > crs@cpsc6a.ATT.COM or > ..!ihnp4!cpsc6a!crs AW...Why not.... +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |James I. Odom | |AT&T-IS CPSC Denver, Co Voice: (303) 889-0211 | |ATTMAIL: JODOM Compuserve: 70070,137 uucp: ihnp4!cpsc55!jio | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed are my own etc. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+