Hello Chris!
09 Feb 98 20:00, Chris Griffin wrote to All:
 CG> I just recently switched my BBS machine back to OS/2 and I'm having a
 CG> problem with unzip being called from squish.  If I run it manualy atr a
 CG> command line it works flawlessly.  If squish involks it, unzip hangs 
every
 CG> time as it starts. Here is the section from compress.cfg:
 CG> Archiver ZIP
 CG>         Extension       ZIP
 CG>         Ident           0,504b0304                      ; "PK^c^d"
 CG> DOS     Add             pkzip -a -ex %a %f
 CG> OS2     Add             \bbs\arc\zip.exe -9jk %a %f
 CG> DOS     Extract         pkunzip -n %a %f
 CG> OS2     Extract         \bbs\arc\unzip -e -njsC %1 %2
 CG> DOS     View            pkzip -v %a
 CG> OS2     View            \bbs\arc\unzip.exe -v %a
 CG> End Archiver
 CG> I don't think there is a problem here because i copied it from a guy who
 CG> uses it just like this.  My guess is a somehow related configuration 
issue
 CG> but I can't figure out what it is.  Any advice will be appreciated.
I don't run your config but, the first thing that is usually found wrong is
path info. Out of habit I always put in the full pathname including drive
letter (C:\dir\subdir\pkunzip.exe ....etc.). This habit has reduced the 
umber
of problems dramaticaly. When you run a BBS there tends to be a lot of hard
typing. You deal with so many paths and file locations that sometimes we rely
on the stock entry. Later things change, become more complicated we forget.
Just a bit of advise that may help. The switches you use are different than
mine for my system. Verify there use and/or need. From the command line do 
ou
type the exact same command string? Try it from the same place you believe it
should be happening. A BBS system can move around quite a bit more than you 
may
be aware of.
Phewwwwww! Hope it helps somehow.
Pete
bomber@cpigeon.com
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