Re: SHK/GSCII Bug (was Re: Python...)

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4nibg3$gh8@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
RUBYWAND <rubywand@aol.com> wrote:
>>I just download the archive of the very recent Python 1.3 -IIGS v1.0 SHK
>>archive from Ground.  It's a scripting system/lang. much like Java, 
>>having been ported to the IIGS, for use with GNO.  Problem is, the 
>>shrinkit archive appears to be corrupt.  Neither ShrinkII on my Mac nor 
>>Shrinkit GS would unshrink it.  (Yes, I did download it properly, just 
>>as I download all other Shrinkit GS .SHK or BXY archives).  

>     There seems to be a bug in Shrikit-GS and/or GSCII and BinSCII.
>Wherever, it appears to be intermittent and to crop up when Text files are
>included. 

>     Possibly, Nathan- Let No Bug Live- Mates has looked into the problem.

   Err, thanks for the compliment, but if the file seems to have been
damaged from the start, as described above, trying to 'fix' some
decompressor wouldn't do much at all. The fact that _both_ GSHK and
ShrinkII on the Macintosh (which is most likely based on slightly
different source code) couldn't deal with it usually indicates a bad
file, not a program bug.

   If I'm to be hunting a bug, I want some hard info on it, especially
how to reproduce it at will. Given a description, time and inclination
to do something about it, I might be able to do something about it.

Nathan Mates



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