I will indeed run the pkware utility on my zip file. It is after all the
first error in decades.
I will also point out to those suggesting Linux solutions on a freedos
forum the strangeness you hint at here.
My search of the infozip site documentation indicated that those upgrades
were for DOS. I already have the 7 zip program just rarely have reason to
use it.
Indeed pure dos is stable, a fine thing to be sure.
Karen
On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, Jim Hall wrote:
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
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