Re: [MiNT] ramdisk bug

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

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:46:53 , "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
> Am 14.08.2010, 20:34 Uhr, schrieb Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
>
> >> Why does arcview not know the command-syntax of the programs it uses by
> >> itself, why does the user have to enter them? I don't like it. Typical
> >> atari-coding.
> >>
> >
> > I think it is because of the wide variety of archive tools and their
> > differing commandset (typical unix software  ;-)
>
> But it lists them in the dialog, so it cannot be that much! Cheap excuse!
>
> Why is it not able to locate the tools? unzip is always unzip, isn't it?
>
> > The unzip.ttp that I use has %P %S %D as its extract parameters
>
> So I enter %P %S %D for command-line? And e.g. D:\UNZIP.TTP for path? See
> I even copied unzip to a FAT-drive!

Yes.

If you click on the Extract button you can select the options for
the other actions (add/delete/display)

> I love to fix bug that need more time to reproduce than to actually fix!

We hope ;-)

I've spent months trying to reproduce bugs that took an hour to fix.

My particular favourite was an Oracle table lock that took about a
year to trace and about 5 minutes to fix.

Peter