Re: [MiNT] ramdisk bug

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:09:22 , Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:50:51 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> > On 08/14/2010 04:48 PM, Peter Slegg wrote:
> >
> > > You have found the bug.
> > >
> > > If you do the same in 1.16.3 then Arcview works fine.
> >
> > I agree with J.L. Arcview might extract the files, but not to the
> > correct place.
> >
> > > Also, if you try to extract the same files twice then it will
> > > complain when it tries to overwrite the files that you cannot see.
> >
> > Search all your drives for one of the files and see where Arcview has
> > extracted it. If the (un)packer can find the file, there is no reason
> > why the desktop shouldn't. They all use the same system calls.
> >
> > > I just extracted loopwave.gtp and then went into Everest and saved
> > > a file to /r called loopwave.gtp and it doesn't complain, the file
> > > is created.
>
> I searched my etx2 partition for the extracted folder yesterday and
> suji found nothing.
>
> >Try to remove the alias and reproduce the error by extracting directly
> > to /ram.
> >
>
> I haven't tried this but I will report back.

Without the alias, neither Arcview (error 50) nor 2in1 (could not create
files) could extract to u:\ram

Peter