Re: [MiNT] ramdisk bug

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

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.

Peter