Date   : Sat, 23 Mar 1991 00:55:31 GMT
From   : eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!nowster!pm@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Paul Martin)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)

Ewen McNeill (ewen@actrix.gen.nz) wrote these words:

> 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).

Are you sure you are running the CPM+ supplied with your 6128?

> For instance, unzip (David Goodenough) doesn't work too well on the Amstrad
> drives for some reason.  It works fine off my Ram disk (the patch for
> which appears to have been made (autoinstall program) at a higher level
> than the bug) however. [BTW, this is nothing against David's program --
> it SHOULD work perfectly on the Amstrad, and does on other systems]

Voila! Non-standard system. I have an Amstrad CPC 464 with 512K 
banked RAM, and the 6128 ROM. I have used David Goodenough's 
UNZIP program every day for the last 9 months without a single 
problem, even with 200K ZIP files.

I have just tried UCRLZH11 on a ?Q?, a ?Z? and a ?Y? file with no 
problems.

May I hazard a guess that you're running ZCPR or similar, or 
something else non-standard?

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