By the way, before anyone suggests the obvious on this, I know that  
it is simple to load the signal extensions but I personally don't  
like to load up extra stuff that I don't need and don't use.  And I  
really don't want to ask QDT users to do it.

jim


On Nov 20, 2005, at 3:59 PM, James Hunkins wrote:

> The last version of the unzip program that I found has two problems,
> one of which commonly confuses users who are installing QDT for a
> zipped source.
>
>       1) an error message that does not cause a real error
>               *** SIGNAL extension not loaded ***
>
>       2) doesn't always open a window when run, but is running anyway,
> just not starting
>               - running it a second time usually opens a new window/case of
> unzip, along with the original
>               - this is more common on the zip_exe than on unzip_exe
>
> The version number of unzip is 5.20 of 30 April 1996.  It saws that
> it is maintained by Greg Roelofs.
>
> Does anyone know if Greg (or someone else) is still working on this?
> Is he the owner of the QL port or the generic source that it is
> ported from.
>
> It would be good to get these two things fixed.  They don't stop the
> use of the programs (which are for all other aspects as far as I can
> tell excellent and very reliable), but as I said, it is confusing to
> several users (it is my biggest reported problem for QDT).
>
> Cheers,
> jim
>
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