Roy wood schreef:
> Here is a little conundrum for you.
>
> I have a zip file which was sent to me by Jim Hunkins with QDT v 1.01 on
> it. It has sat on my downloads directory for ages since v1.02 is the
> current one. I was recently asked for a copy of it because the user had
> only v1.00 and you have to go through v1.01 to upgrade to v1.02.
>
> The zip file is the one I used to create the distribution of QDT that I
> sold for some time with complete success and no problems from customers.
> The archive contains three files :
>
> qdtinst.bas
> QDTINST.zip
> unzip
>
> OK. So far so good. I copies the whole archive to RAM2_ and unzipped it,
> using the QL Unzip program, to RAM1_ I then copies the three files to
> flp1_ and sent it out.
>
> When my customer came to use it he found he got and error message about
> the zip file having no end of file signature and called me to tell me. I
> repeated the first part of the above procedure and checked the
> QDTINST.zip file. This unzipped OK. I copied it to a floppy drive and it
> failed.
>
> I tried this several times, using a new floppy disk, using different
> methods of copying the file but always the same result. Finally I
> unzipped the original archive direct from the PC side to a QL floppy
> (Good thing QPC2 can see the PC hard drive so easily) and that works.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on why this should be?
>
I think the signal extension has to be installed before unzipping with
the 'unzip' version found on the QDT cd.
I had some problems with it and I had to modify 'qdtinst_bas too.
François Van Emelen
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