Hello Robert!
Recently I have bumped into some peculiar behaviour, connected with ARJ. It 
happens with the unpacking/packing of files with AllFix and PalmScan. It is 
concerning two different types of behaviour.
Seven or more times now I have had a major hangup of my system with the 
unpacking of "ARJ"-ived files. One of them being RAR200P.ARJ. I did not 
discover probems with RAR200.ARJ, but it might perhabs be the case that it 
does happen only with OS/2 files. I cannot deny nor underline this assumption 
though. With this -and other files- I have had the same type of behaviour: 
several ASCII-screens, while beeping, after which my system locks up, telling 
me to reboot the system or the session... To have my system working proper 
afterwards, I have to reboot not once, but twice...
With the file CRAYON41.ZIP I got a hangup as well. In this case the system 
still shows the little ( and still running ) star, indicating the progress. 
The file is a (PK)ZIP file, where my boss packs everything with ARJ. 
Therefore I guess this file was originally originating from one of the SDS 
file echos. In this case as well I had to reboot my system.
Furthermore something very peculiar happened, seen more often at hangup 
screens:
================================================================
Using environment variable: e:\UTI\ARC\ARJ.CFG=-c -ha -y
Can't find M:\TMP\AF\CRAYON41.000\CRAYDRAW.ARJ
Found     1 error(s)!
------------------------------------------------------------------ Unable to 
extract files from archive CRAYDRAW
 Testing archive
------------------------------------------------------------------ ARJ 2.50a 
REGISTERED Copyright (c) 1990-95 ARJ Software. Dec 12 1995 Registered to 
[Paul Voogd R#XXXX]
Using enverinment variable: ARJ_SW=
Can't find M:\TMP\AF\CRAYON41.000\CRAYDRAW.ARJ
Found     1 error(s)!
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Failed 
archive test
 Cleaning up
 Processing file : CRAYPALT ( password protected multi-volume ARJ SFX with 
(AV)
 Multi-volume processing initiated
\
===================================================================
Two things came to my attention: the first file was CRAYDRAW, and not 
CRAYDRAW.ARJ and the original ( correct ) replacement of the ARJ CFG variabel 
was not filled in proper anymore with the second run. Somewhere, somehow the 
CRAYDRAW file was being recognized as an ARJ file, despite the fact it was 
inside a (PK)ZIP file, and no extension whatsoever was being present. I do 
not know why the ARJ extension was presumed... ARJ was running under AllFix 
together with PalmScan. PalmScan's author ( Steven Hendriks ) will create a 
work around, but I would like to see this behaviour being banned 
mpletely...
My ARJ CFG values are the following:
a -a1 -e1 -m1 -jm -s -t0 -u -wm:\tmp\ar\ -y
x -c -ha -y
Am I doing something wrong.
Cya,
     Paul.
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