Hi Darik,
I did not read every entry in that list of files. But there were a couple
things I noticed while skimming it…
Those files are in the mirrors section of the ibiblio server. They don’t really
have anything directly to do with the packages in the software repo area. Nor
do they have any
Eric,
> Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes
> the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a
> solid archive.
Look at a FreeDOS package like 'latest/apps/doszip.zip' and notice the
embedded SOURCE/SOURCES.ZIP file.
Every package with long file names in upstream sour
Hi Eric,
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 4:13 PM, E. Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi! Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes
> the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a
> solid archive. If you remove them from the ZIP and add a
> TAR of the sources to the ZIP instead, you would get
Hi! Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes
the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a
solid archive. If you remove them from the ZIP and add a
TAR of the sources to the ZIP instead, you would get that
type of result, but it would mean that the install process
will
Hi Darik,
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Darik Horn wrote:
> [..]
> RAR implements the PKZIP listfile syntax, so the SETUP.BAT invocation
> would change to this;
>
> SET TCPU=8086
> REM vinfo stuff goes here...
> unrar x freedos.rar @%TCPU%.txt
>
> Where the @LISTFILE corresponds to a SLICER
Jerome,
> I’m not sure what version of UnRAR you are using.
I used these two upstream releases to repack the latest FreeDOS 1.3
release candidate:
1. ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/rar250.exe for decompression.
FreeDOS ships the 16-bit UnRAR 2.50 binary from this release, and the
IDOS.SFX module insi
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 5:05 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Darik Horn wrote:
>
> The UnRAR in FreeDOS is 32,086 bytes and already implements all of the things
> that you want for SCLICER, which is currently 28,188 bytes.
> (Compression, installation scripting, me
Hi Travis,
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 10:37 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
>
> I have never used slicer, so can't comment on it.
>
I wouldn’t expect you to use it. In almost every case, there are other
utilities that are in common use. And/or, better suited to a task.
Slicer was created specifically to
I have never used slicer, so can't comment on it. However, I have used
rar for years, and I've never found a task it can't be made to do with
proper command line parameters. If you only want a specific file
extracted, it's easy enough to tell it to use that file only, (or a
range of files if
On my legacy FreeDOS PC, at C:, I have just entered "print readme.txt.".
My Ubuntu tower PC has printed the three pages!
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Hi Darik,
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Darik Horn wrote:
> [..]
> SLICER is small. Less than 1/10th the size of RAR. While, this does not
> matter as much for a 1.44mb diskette. It matters a lot if a user only has a
> 160K drive to work with. With RAR being roughly 353K, that is not going to
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