Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip revisited.

2025-03-03 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi, Thanks for that link, I have gathered it on the off chance I need it again. Cannot speak to a need for piping anything, it is not a part of my goals. Or likely any task I will require. Thanks again, Karen On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Micha�~B Dec via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, That's not true

Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip revisited.

2025-03-03 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, That's not true. man pages are manuals for specific programs and functions. Whether the subject of a manual's help is limited to a specific operating system, like you're implying, is not the case for programs and functions that are not exclusive to Linux. If you don't have access to a com

Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip revisited.

2025-03-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! The Linux man page for p7zip here says that p7zip is a command-line interface to 7z, so it can only really do what 7z can do. The 7z man page says that if you want to save/restore directory structures on Linux then you have to use something like 'tar' to do that bit, so you would pipe tar

Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip revisited.

2025-03-02 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi, as I am not using Linux, while kind, the man pages would not help here. I have still protected the copy of the .7z file, so may simply try running it, program worked fine last time I tried. Thanks, Karen On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user wrote: Hi there, On Sun, 2 Mar 2

Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip revisited.

2025-03-02 Thread G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user
Hi there, On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: Has been a couple of years since I needed this, and there is no readme file in the p7zip directory. the wordstar copy I was sent uses 7z though, so just making sure. I have already copied the p7zip.exe file, to the correct d