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authorB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-11-26 05:44:24 -0500
committerB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-11-26 05:44:43 -0500
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alf: Bounds checking on input and output sizes. Document unalf bug with files >=15MB. Use atarified filename in 'Crunching' message.
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@@ -356,6 +356,14 @@ old disk images as \fBUNALF.COM\fP, and \fBLZ.COM\fP is sometimes called
\fBALF.COM\fP or \fBALFER.COM\fP\&. I\(aqve used the original names partly
out of respect for the original author, and partly to avoid confusion
between my \fBunalf\fP and the Atari one.
+.SH BUGS
+.sp
+A minor one: \fBunalf\fP can\(aqt correctly extract files larger than about
+15MB. This could be a problem in \fBalf\fP (though the archives look
+OK to me), or it could be a bug I introduced when porting \fBunalf\fP,
+or it could be a bug in the original \fBDZ.COM\fP\&. Files this large are
+a pathological case for \fIALF\fP, anyway, since nobody ever used them on
+the Atari 8\-bit.
.SH COPYRIGHT
.sp
The original AlfCrunch (\fBDZ.COM\fP and \fBLZ.COM\fP) for the Atari