Hello Christian!

*** 21.10.03 at 22:10, Christian Boettger wrote to Martin Foster:

 CB> In FIDO.XPOINT on 21.10.03 (received 21.10.03)
 CB> Martin Foster  uttered
 CB> on the subject "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

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 AS>>> And - when I attempted to use the Archive Viewer to look into
 AS>>> known decent .ZIPs etc., I got loads of error messages suggesting
 AS>>> that the archives were faulty :(

 MF>> Same here.

 CB> Looks like the archivers can't be called which isn't too surprising
 CB> if they are not found in the first place, see above.

 CB> One thought: do those archivers actually work under plain DOS? Or
 CB> only when Windows is active?

I can't answer that because I don't have a pure DOS machine at the moment.  
I know somebody who does though and I'm sure he'll answer your question in  
due course ;-))

 MF>> I've noticed something else as well .....

 MF>> Whilst using OpenXP's built-in HDD navigation tool, my drive
 MF>> letters are not listed in the correct order. They are listed thus:
 MF>> B: C: D: F: G: H: J: E: A: I:

 CB> Looks confusing but not really like a critical error.

Yes but I thought I'd just mention it.

 MF>> Sorry but that doesn't happen here with the current snapshot,
 MF>> language switching now works as it should.

 CB> At least one thing fixed ...

Yep.

 CB> I've forwarded your bug reports;

Many thanks.

 CB> but to be sure, please neter them into the SourceForge bug tracker as
 CB> well. Thanks.

OK, will do.

Regards,
Martin

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