Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel, am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 um 16:08 schrieben Sie: > Hi Eric, > On Feb 10, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > [..] > PS: Thanks Tom et al for improving FDISK!! Time to get > the new version packaged into the distro repositories? > That was done soon after he

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

Hi Eric, > On Feb 10, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > [..] > > PS: Thanks Tom et al for improving FDISK!! Time to get > the new version packaged into the distro repositories? That was done soon after he released it. It was up on the repos weeks ago. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

February 10, 2021 2:41 PM, "Eric Auer" 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 p

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

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 ve

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

> Even though it's a good idea to include a decompression utility, in fact > Microsoft did not have one bundled with their DOS until version 6.0. I've only had original Microsoft disks of MS-DOS 5.0 but in there EXPAND.EXE is on the 5th disk and most of the files on the other disks are compressed,

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

Agreed. I don't likke FreeDOS getting automagic... Alain Em 09/02/2021 22:22, Deposite Pirate escreveu: I think that's a great idea. I don't like the default FreeDOS UNIXish filesystem layout nor the installer and I just always install things manually to have files where I like them to be. G

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

February 10, 2021 9:39 AM, "Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user" wrote: > Is it worth pointing out that every version of MS-DOS, including the > DOS-based Windows recovery boot disks, have included a utility out of > the box to extract bare files from their "packages"? Even though it's a good idea to

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

> It is just that the missing "unzip" really creating extra work, as > I > needed to find it online, download it on a Internet connected > machine, > then transfer it to another machine that still has a floppy drive, > create a floppy and then copy it over to the target FreeDOS > system. > > Th

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

Jerome Shidel writes: While FreeDOS packages are stored in standard zip archives, there is some additional things to be considered. For example, a programs binaries may be stored in an archive under a BIN directory. If you extract such an archive, it with place them in a BIN dir. Howev

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

I think that's a great idea. I don't like the default FreeDOS UNIXish filesystem layout nor the installer and I just always install things manually to have files where I like them to be. Getting unzip16 which is needed to unpack most stuff often requires jumping through hoops like finding it onl

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

Oh, one more thing... > [..] > I propose to add "unzip16.exe" to the boot floppy to allow easy > bootstrapping additional packages. If you would like to make suggestions regarding what is installed, please try to visit the FreeDOS Install Media package Survey. https://fd.lod.bz/survey/

Re: [Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

HI, > On Feb 9, 2021, at 1:53 PM, Carsten Strotmann wrote: > > Hi, > > I've installed FreeDOS 1.3rc3 on an 5x86 machine with 3 1/2" floppy > last weekend. > > The initial installation (manual) was smooth (partitioning, formatting > drive C:, installing DOS kernel und command.com). > > Then I

[Freedos-user] Proposal to add "unzip16.exe" to FreeDOS Disk Image

Hi, I've installed FreeDOS 1.3rc3 on an 5x86 machine with 3 1/2" floppy last weekend. The initial installation (manual) was smooth (partitioning, formatting drive C:, installing DOS kernel und command.com). Then I wanted to install some additional packages. I did not want to use the instal