Subj : Watergaters To : Ger Vloothuis From : Jos Huijnen Date : Wed Dec 27 2000 11:17 am Hello Ger! you wrote to Jos Huijnen: GV> Had the same problem with corrupt outgoing archives, but never knew GV> that was NT related. Watergate always worked fine here on W98, until GV> I moved the frontend to another faster machine with NT4. I thought GV> the failure to make proper archives had something to do with the GV> Borlan Pascal 7 bug for Pentiums over 200 Mhz. Are you sure this is GV> an NT4 issue? Not 100% sure offcourse, but that are my findings. I used WaterGate before on Windows 98(SE) and there were no problems (at least I didn't discover them). When switching to Windows NT (on the same machine, which is based on an AMD K6 500) those problems appeared. Strange thing it isn't happening all the time (most archives are correct). Also not all archivers have this problem (ZIP isn't infected by it). The data in the archives is also not infected. The last two bytes are sometimes changed. They are not a part of the real data, but are used (by some archivers) for a checksum. RAR and LZH are very sensitive with this and start complaining. I.e. LHA (DOS version) doesn't complain, LH7 does complain about it, but still decompresses and the PKT's can be processed. RAR also complains about a wrong CRC and kills the extracted PKT's, but when using the -kb switch they are not killed and still can be processed. On Windows 2000 there is even a more strange affect. PKZip doesn't always add all PKT's to the archive (it returns an error 12). Just running WaterGate a second time to let ik call PKZip is a workaround and the PKT's not archived in the first run are archived without any error. B.T.W. Starting the archivers directly and there are no problems at all. WaterGate just calls the archivers, so normally there shouldn't be any problem then. So my conclusion (for now) is that it has something to do when calling the archiver from another (dos) program (in this case WaterGate). GV> I got the impression that there would never be another version of GV> Watergate. Ramon got married and after a girl comes on the scend it GV> is all over :-) Yups... It happened before, and it will happen again. A girl is a programmers death. :-) But what version are you using now? And what flavour? I used the DPMI version of v2.00PRE4 (which is only available for beta-testers). I just want to now if this problem is in WaterGate for a long time, or just one in the beta-runs. About another version? I don't know... Since the source of WG is in pascal I think it will be hard to find somebody who will pick up the development. Most software in fidonet which is still developed is in C(++). Greetings, Jos Huijnen --- GoldED+ snapshot-2000.12.24 (WinNT 5.0.2195-Service_Pack_1 i686) * Origin: The Snake [+31-43-3540992] -- http://t-snake.webhop.org (2:280/4312) .