February 10, 2021 2:41 PM, "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
> Hi Pirate! > > To add my 2 cents: While it is good when the package > manager has a built-in unzip function and extra features > to keep your DOS installation well-structured, it also > is desirable to have a normal ZIP and UNZIP tool around > as part of the install boot disks. The next question is > which version you would boot on 8086: Only there, having > a 16-bit version of ZIP and UNZIP makes sense. For newer > computers and all boot-from-CD/DVD and boot-from-USB DOS > installer images, the 32-bit version will be better :-) > > Regards, Eric > > PS: Thanks Tom et al for improving FDISK!! Time to get > the new version packaged into the distro repositories? Yes, right. The 16-bit version of unzip doesn't make much sense on a PC with a CD-ROM drive or even able to boot from USB. I was only thinking about floppy disk images. It also makes more sense to have unzip16 for floppy disk images because of the space constraints (I think I remember the 32 bit version of Info-ZIP's unzip requires cwsdpmi). _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
