Thank you for your replies. I think I must had the wrong cd inserted, because now I can see all the packages as expected. Sorry for the confusion!
Cheers, Dimitris On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list. > > I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, there is > no active (DOS) maintainer, and it's somewhat buggy because of that > (and the fact that it's really a very sloppy POSIX port that barely > works with DJGPP). I don't grok C++, so I wasn't much further help > regarding it. It does work, but it's far from perfect. > > If you just want to unpack .7z files, use 7zdec. But normally, as Jim > Hall always tells us, ZIP is preferred overall, so just use (old but > good) Info-Zip (zip / unzip). > > (Or you could run old standalone Win32 7za [sic] under HX. That worked > pretty well. Besides, the DJGPP build of p7zip doesn't have 7z [sic] > anyways ... although even that build [Win32] I did briefly get running > under HX). > > There's also upstream DJGPP builds of XZ, if you just can't live > without LZMA. And a billion other archivers (UHarc??). I honestly > haven't kept up in recent years (not sure why I ever bothered, I'm not > savvy enough to understand the details anyways). > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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