Sorry, I have a retraction.
links20f works fine, not giving me the dpmi error.
p7zip does however.
going to try a small trick, especially as I will only need this once.
everything crossed.
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Thanks again Eric!
I was likewise confused by some of what is here.
your wisdom about what to run has presented another challenge.
now, this is the first time in a while a machine has been built for me,
without my being present for the dos installation itself.
when I run the p7zip command I get a load error no DPMI
as an aside, I get this when I now run links20f as well.
such did not happen previously, leading me to guess something is not loading
as it should, or loading that should not.
How do I correct the DPMI error, and where, autoexec.bat or config.sys?
Thanks again,
Karen
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
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
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