Code from Inform5.5 causes Jzip2.01 (Unix) to crash


14 Nov 1995 22:02:01 GMT

Perhaps I am doing something wrong... But I recently downloaded the
source code for Jzip201 and Inform5.5 and played with it some. Everything
worked fine until my friend tried "say howdy to satan" which caused jzip
to crash. I soon discoved that "say"ing anything caused it to crash.
My first thought was that I did something seriously wrong in my inform
code, so I tried recompiling the shell.inf example, and it crashed too.

I wonder if anyone else has experience similar problems with either.

Here's some more info:

I compiled both for SGI machines.

The file "shell.z3" that came with inform5.5 works fine, but when I
recompiled it, I ended up with a slightly large file (22016 vs. 21504 bytes).

I had to make a slight change in Shell.inf to get it to work. All of the
includes used mixed case, like: include "Parser"
This didn't work, so I changed them to: include "parser"
since, for example, the parser is called "parser.h" not "Parser.h"

Now, am I doing something wrong, do I have old buggy versions of either
jzip or inform, or any other ideas?

Greg

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