Hi!
I did download Eric's file, as I do not use freedos.
While you get extra package management features by opening our zipped app packages with a package manager, unzipping them with any UNZIP style tool will usually be sufficient. So you should be fine.
The information indicates that it might be a port of a windows package. My search suggested that I should fine an executable called 7za, or even just 7z, but it is not there. the p7z file does not work at all.
There are two EXE files in the download: 624292 bx defX 09-Mar-05 00:00 ARCHIVER/P7ZIP/P7ZIP.EXE 542956 bx defX 09-Mar-04 23:48 ARCHIVER/P7ZIP/P7ZIPR.EXE When you run p7zip -h or p7zipr -h they will show the help text which makes me assume that they are two different compiles of a standard 7-zip binary. I have no idea why they got renamed to p7zip here? The directory also contains various text documents and a subdirectory with a HTML manual. In addition, there are APPINFO, LINKS and SOURCE directories. The former contains metadata about the package, the latter contains a zip with the source code and the LINKS directory contains a batch file which seems to be meant as a wrapper to be put in your path to call p7zip.exe without having to add the archiver p7zip directory to your path. It does not pass the command line arguments, though, which confuses me. In short, you should be able to just copy the exe and maybe the .1 documentation files from the ARCHIVER/P7ZIP directory into a directory in your path and keep everything else around at a place of your choice for some extra documentation. You do not need to use a package manager then. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
