PE> You get to either:

PE> 1. Use different software (preferred option from my POV).

RS> Soorree, not into mindless fascism, YOU demanded that I use THIS software.

PE> 2. Put up with silent deletion (4th preferred option from my POV).

RS> Soorree, I call you a complete fuckwit instead.

PE> Whatever Rod, this is the option currently in effect
PE> until you get off your arse and do something about it.

I've ALREADY got off my arse and done whatever makes any sense
about it, and in those circumstances only a complete fuckwit
would think that silent deletion makes the slightest sense.

PE> 3. Debug the problem yourself (2nd preferred option from my POV).

RS> Which I get to do myself anyway, whatever you proclaim.

PE> 4. Give me what I asked for (3rd preferred option from my POV).

RS> Coz I have been debugging software for long enough to know
RS> that what you ask for wont help, and even bothered to prove
RS> that in MY system, coz it was more convenient to do it that way.

PE> You know Rod, if you had even 1/10 of my ability, you would
PE> have sent a source code fix in reply to my original message.

Is that right ?  Have fun trying to work out where a bug
is when you cant even get it it happen on your system boy.

Your 'ability' wasnt even sufficient to allow you to notice that
that problem you had with your backup ZIPPING aint necessarily an
OS fault, let alone even understand how to resolve it even if it was.

In the circumstances, even you might just be able to grasp that someone
like me thats been debugging software since before you were born, may
have just a tad of a problem with your claim that you know it all.

You dont. Soorree.

PE> It's a reproducible problem on your system,

And doesnt even manifest on your system, so there aint the slightest
point in taking any notice of your silly ideas on what has to be provide
to you for you to debug it. Particularly when your previous silly idea on
the QWK2PKT.EXE was obviously just as unlikely and was proven to be too.

I also happen to understand what decent robust software is
about too. Unlike some who are into code and pray instead.
@EOT:

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