From: Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> --===============2905593142841686751== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114b0aa08b4740053a6228e0
--001a114b0aa08b4740053a6228e0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thank you for your replies. I think I must had the wrong cd inserted, because now I can see all the packages as expected. Sorry for the confusion! Cheers, Dimitris On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list. > > I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, there is > no active (DOS) maintainer, and it's somewhat buggy because of that > (and the fact that it's really a very sloppy POSIX port that barely > works with DJGPP). I don't grok C++, so I wasn't much further help > regarding it. It does work, but it's far from perfect. > > If you just want to unpack .7z files, use 7zdec. But normally, as Jim > Hall always tells us, ZIP is preferred overall, so just use (old but > good) Info-Zip (zip / unzip). > > (Or you could run old standalone Win32 7za [sic] under HX. That worked > pretty well. Besides, the DJGPP build of p7zip doesn't have 7z [sic] > anyways ... although even that build [Win32] I did briefly get running > under HX). > > There's also upstream DJGPP builds of XZ, if you just can't live > without LZMA. And a billion other archivers (UHarc??). I honestly > haven't kept up in recent years (not sure why I ever bothered, I'm not > savvy enough to understand the details anyways). > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > --001a114b0aa08b4740053a6228e0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir="ltr">Thank you for your replies. I think I must had the wrong cd inserted, because now I can see all the packages as expected. Sorry for the confusion!<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Dimitris</div></d v><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Rugxulo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rugx...@gmail.com"; target="_blank">rugx...@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br> <span class=""><br> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <<a href="mailto:dimitr...@gmail.com";>dimitr...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything<br> > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list.<br> <br> </span>I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, there is<br> no active (DOS) maintainer, and it's somewhat buggy because of that<br> (and the fact that it's really a very sloppy POSIX port that barely<br> works with DJGPP). I don't grok C++, so I wasn't much further help<br> regarding it. It does work, but it's far from perfect.<br> <br> If you just want to unpack .7z files, use 7zdec. But normally, as Jim<br> Hall always tells us, ZIP is preferred overall, so just use (old but<br> good) Info-Zip (zip / unzip).<br> <br> (Or you could run old standalone Win32 7za [sic] under HX. That worked<br> pretty well. Besides, the DJGPP build of p7zip doesn't have 7z [sic]<br> anyways ... although even that build [Win32] I did briefly get running<br> under HX).<br> <br> There's also upstream DJGPP builds of XZ, if you just can't live<br> without LZMA. And a billion other archivers (UHarc??). I honestly<br> haven't kept up in recent years (not sure why I ever bothered, I'm not<br> savvy enough to understand the details anyways).<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> ------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------- --------<br> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Freedos-user mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net";>Freedos-user@lists.<wbr>sourcef rge.net</a><br> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user"; rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/<wbr>lists/listinfo/freedos-user</ ><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div> --001a114b0aa08b4740053a6228e0-- --===============2905593142841686751== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --===============2905593142841686751== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --===============2905593142841686751==-- --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (1:2320/105.99) --- * BgNet 1.0b12 = CCO * KY/US * 502/875-8938 * capcity2.synchro.net --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
