Date   : Wed, 20 Mar 1991 08:43:43 GMT
From   : csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)

ewen@actrix.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill) writes:

> And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
> same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
> describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
> in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
> no Bios source available to my knowledge).

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> FTR, I have successfully used UCRLZH to uncrunch files (.?Z?), so it
> definately does work.  This was not off the floppy drives on the
> Amstrad, however (this is where the bug is).
> 
> Sorry, everyone, that this has got this long.  It was intended to rebut
> the flame, but the opportunity to seek others opinion on the problem
> couldn't be missed.
> 
> Any useful suggestions are welcomed, and any off-the-cuff flames will be
> dealt with in a suitable manner (ie, probably ignored!).

My deepest apologies.  I guess I assumed that all BIOSes were
pretty much well-behaved and it seems to be restricted to some
BIOSes.  Also, it probably has something to do with the fact that
those computers are running CP/M Plus, which I've heard can be
flakey at times.  That's why I stick with my CP/M 2.2 stuff
(highly uprated w/ZCPR33 and stuff like that...)