As Dennis and Ralf have said, the versions for DOS of Zip and Unzip are current. That's the nice thing about DOS, the interface is stable.
Sounds like what you need is the zipfix tool. I think PKware had pkzipfix? Check for that and run it. That tool will check for errors in your zip files. BTW, asking for MSDOS help on a FreeDOS forum, and then saying no to that help because the FreeDOS folks gave an answer for FreeDOS, is a rather strange thing. It's like asking Linus Torvalds what his favorite Windows program is. Jim On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 10:47 PM Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > sorry, let me correct my question. > It appears that the edition of info zip's zip and unzip programs are not > current, from 2008 and 2009, according to my google. > Unfortunately sourceforge no longer lets you download from there without > JavaScript, these days. > So my goal is the most current edition, which does not seem to be what you > provide at the freedos site? > Karen > > > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Jim Hall wrote: > > > We use Infozip, and include that in the FreeDOS distribution. The zip > files > > are compatible with PKZip (PKWare opened up the file spec so anyone could > > make compatible zip files.) > > > > Try unzipping your file using InfoUnzip and see if that will extract them > > correctly. > > > > > > Jim > > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 6:18 PM Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net > > > > wrote: > > > >> greetings folks, > >> as stated often, while I do not use freedos, I am a strict DOS user. > By > >> which I mean, not using an emulation, with only DOS on my machines. > >> For well ever I have used the edition of pk zip et, al. from 1999, > >> which I believe was the last dos edition created by that company. > >> I have a large archive of all text files, and am getting errors, > creating > >> sub directories, stating the file name is incorrect, even though the > >> latter > >> is wrong. > >> As a result, I am wondering if there is a different strictly for DOS > >> program for managing compressed files? > >> thanks for any ideas. > >> Karen > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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