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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3661.0. "JrComm V0.94d - is it valid?" by CLO::COBURN (Growing older, but not up...) Wed Apr 11 1990 02:16

    I just picked up JrComm V0.94d from Safe Harbor's BBS. There was no
    docs except a readme file that said replace JrComm image with the one
    from the archive. 
    
    I tried it and it seems OK but the executable is about half the size of
    the V0.94a executable that I have been using. 
    
    Does anyone know anything about this version? If it is safe I'll upload
    it to TAPE (if anyone wants it - I usually use Smokey and VLT).
    
    John
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3661.1Maybe... ;-)FROCKY::BALZERChristian Balzer DTN:785-1029Wed Apr 11 1990 08:2219
    Re: .0
        
    If it's half the size, chances are someone with a tight disk-space
    budget "powerpacked" the executable. If your screen or mouse pointer
    do some strange colorcycling after loading from disk, that's a sure
    sign of a "packed" program. You may also want to check with the
    PowerPacker 2.?? program on a not so old Fish disk and KV from the
    VirusX distribution. BTW, my fellow brewer and active anti-viral
    programmer Heiko Rath informed me that KV doesn't detect all viruses
    it claims to recognise. And there's a new virus around (at least
    here in Germany), a description will follow these days.
    
    As far as the legal status is concerned, I believe that V0.94d is
    still "public", unlike the V0.99 releases that popped up here and
    there. 
    
    Regards,
    
    <CB>
3661.2CLO::COBURNGrowing older, but not up...Wed Apr 11 1990 13:489
    Ok. I didn't notice any color cycling but DMOUSE shuts my mouse off
    after 5 seconds and JrComm always blanked the screen. 
    
    I see I forgot to mention the sizes 143000 bytes for V.94a and 77000
    for V.94d (these are approximate). 
    
    Thanks for the info. I'll check out PowerPacker.
    
    John
3661.3JRCOM94D.LZH copied to TAPECLO::COBURNGrowing older, but not up...Wed Apr 11 1990 16:342
    I just copied JRCOM94D.LZH to TAPE for anyone interested.