Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft EXPAND file format

Thanks to both. Actually I was wondering about the opposite (compressing), but I haven't looked in detail at Robert's libmspack (I have only found the uncompress). Aitor 2009/9/6 Bernd Blaauw : > Op 6-9-2009 17:09, Aitor Santamaría schreef: >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone ever seen the file format for th

Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft EXPAND file format

Op 6-9-2009 17:09, Aitor Santamaría schreef: > Hi, > > Has anyone ever seen the file format for the "contracted" EX_/TX_/etc > files in MS-DOS, or has anyone ever heard about its file format to be > documented? > ReactOS or 7zip might be able to expand the contents, seems to be some MS variant

Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft EXPAND file format

Robert Riebisch wrote: >> Has anyone ever seen the file format for the "contracted" EX_/TX_/etc >> files in MS-DOS, or has anyone ever heard about its file format to be >> documented? > > http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/ Forgot: My port of cabextract + mspack to Open Watcom is at

Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft EXPAND file format

Aitor Santamaría wrote: > Has anyone ever seen the file format for the "contracted" EX_/TX_/etc > files in MS-DOS, or has anyone ever heard about its file format to be > documented? http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/ Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft EXPAND file format

Hi, Forget it, finally I've found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZSS Regards, Aitor El 6 de septiembre de 2009 17:09, Aitor Santamaría escribió: > Hi, > > Has anyone ever seen the file format for the "contracted" EX_/TX_/etc > files in MS-DOS, or has anyone ever heard about its file format to

[Freedos-devel] Microsoft EXPAND file format

Hi, Has anyone ever seen the file format for the "contracted" EX_/TX_/etc files in MS-DOS, or has anyone ever heard about its file format to be documented? Aitor -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal

Re: [Freedos-devel] newer motherboards and [U]EFI, large-sectored drives

Hi Christian, I remember that eltorito.sys tries to autodetect whether the BIOS lets you access the CD/DVD as 2048 byte per sector drive or rather as 512 bytes per sector, so the idea of different sized sectors is not new... Floppy supported 128 to 1024 bytes, for example... Yes, FreeDOS only sup

Re: [Freedos-devel] newer motherboards and [U]EFI, large-sectored drives

> LARGE SECTOR DRIVES: There is also the issue of large-sectored disks > coming after the 2TB drive, if anyone plans on purchasing one of those. > by large-sectored I mean drives that have 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors. > Microsoft has warned of this. large-sectored drives allow you to use