> On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> 
> On 24/11/2015 18:38, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote:
>> That fixed the problem with the attrib package.
>> But, now there is a new problem. :(
>> FDINST locks-up while extracting the help package.
> 
> That's a bug specific to FDINST. FDNPKG works fine. In fact, the bug is 
> present in the source code of both (since they share most of code), but 
> it becomes a bug only when int is 16bit. That good old 'int is not 
> 32bit' never sleeps... always ready to bite one in the bum when least 
> expected.

Typo’s are always great as well. I had to fun trying to fix a bug in FDI
similar to something like this:

if not exist %FTARET%\NUL mkdir %FTARGET%

You look at it 1 or 2 times thinking, “Why do you keep complaining? It’s fine!”

The all of a sudden you think “Oh, I’m and idiot.”

:)


> 
> I fixed it in the devel version, you can grab it here:
> gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/temp
> 
> I do not not release anything public yet, just in case you find another 
> trouble within the hour :)

Some stuff has come up and  I probably won’t get a chance to do any work 
on the installer for a couple of days.


> FWIW, this latest version contains the following changes:
>  - FDINST returns non-zero error code if package fails to be installed,
>  - FDINST do not freezes on stored files that are more than 32K in size,
>  - files that fail extraction are removed (were being left corrupted).

Sounds great.

> 
> cheers,
> Mateusz
> 
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