On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:46 PM Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > It appears that the edition of info zip's zip and unzip programs are not > current, from 2008 and 2009, according to my google. > Unfortunately sourceforge no longer lets you download from there without > JavaScript, these days. > So my goal is the most current edition, which does not seem to be what you > provide at the freedos site?
You probably don't *care*. I don't believe any updates made after 2009 affect the DOS versions. InfoZip is *very* mature technology, and updates past what the FreeDOS site has are almost certainly for Windows and Linux ports. (I just browsed current issues and patches. All are for Linux, POSIX, or Win64.) I suspect no patches that would affect use on DOS were in the older versions you found. DOS has been dead for 25 years. Patches only happen when someone reports a bug and someone else is motivated to create a fix. Given how long it has been since DOS ceased to be a widely used OS, I'd be startled if anyone actually found a bug in more than 20 years that *required* a fix. If you really want to be that fussy about " current" editions, you bite the bullet, install a version of Linux that will work on your hardware, and run DOS applications using DOSBox or DOSEmu. But the underlying issue you reported still exists. You have Zip archives that return errors when you try to open them with PKUNZIP. Where did they come from? Did you get them from elsewhere or create them yourself? If you created them yourself, where are they stored? (Please tell me it isn't on floppy disks.) Switching to Infop-ZIP isn't likely to magically fix the problem if the archives are damaged.. If you really need to get at the contents of those archives, you'll need to use a tool that can try to repair damaged archives. It's been a while since I've used it, but foggy memory says archive repair was not something the Info-Zip packages offered. I believe DOS versions of 7-zip do offer repair capabilities. > Karen ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
