Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
 wrote:
>
> So far, I have gone through all of the ARCHIVER and BASE packages and have 
> corrected their LSM data.
>
> In those groups, these packages have not been solved.
>
> Unknown license information and will probably be dropped from release,
>
> ARCHIVER/ARJ

I don't know about ARJ (clone), I've never needed to use it. I (very
rarely) used UnARJ, which seems "Free" (to my naive eyes, but it's
always hard to tell). So, if you really want ARJ support, include that
instead.

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/unarj265.exe

EDIT: Oops, it's possibly "non-free" (although I honestly have no idea
why). Debian now seems to prefer the full ARJ (from ARJ Russia on
SF.net, which I vaguely think is the same one mentioned above as
"ARCHIVER/ARJ"; at least FD's "UTIL" ARJ is apparently that one).

https://archive.debian.net/search?lang=km=names=unarj
https://archive.debian.net/km/sarge/unarj
https://archive.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/a/arj/arj_3.10.21-2/arj.copyright

> ARCHIVER/ZOO

ZOO is another older archive format. The only two gotchas that I
(barely) remember are that 2.01 was public domain yet lacked "higher"
compression (LZW, now patent expired). 2.10 had some weird clause
about "don't charge more than $xyz" (against Compuserve?), but that
apparently has been rescinded in recent years (as Linux distros
nowadays sometimes include it). E.g. see below for Debian, which
claims it's "public domain":

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-28_copyright

There's also (public domain) BOOZ, but that's only the unpacker. So
you could also just include that (instead) if desired.

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/booz20.zip

> Missing sources,
>
> BASE/COMMAND

AFAIK, it hasn't changed lately, as there is no maintainer. So just grab this:

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/commands.zip

But I haven't looked closely (thousands of files, ugh!). The only
dependency, AFAIK, is Suppl, but I think that's already included
(unlike in 0.82pl3 sources).

Hmmm, seems "suppl.tgz" is included twice, but the (.tgz) CRC fails.
Yeah, I vaguely remember that error, ugh!

So also grab Suppl from here:

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/suppls.zip

And no, AFAIK, the "newer" FreeCOM version is not stable, it still had
runtime bugs (for me) when built with OpenWatcom. That port was just
never finalized, AFAIK.

> Yet to verify all packages on previously posted list in groups

Too much to do 

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

[Jerome E. Shidel Jr.]

So far, I have gone through all of the ARCHIVER and BASE packages and have 
corrected their LSM data.

In those groups, these packages have not been solved. 

Unknown license information and will probably be dropped from release,

ARCHIVER/ARJ
ARCHIVER/ZOO

Missing sources,

BASE/COMMAND

Yet to verify all packages on previously posted list in groups

DEVEL
EDIT
EMULATOR
GAMES
NET
SOUND
UTIL


Thanks, Jerome



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