Hi Joseph,
> I do notice that the dir command doesn’t seem to display them, and I saw
> nothing in the help for dir about lfn’s.
I keep thinking about doing a new directory lister. I’ve never been fond of the
DOS one. It’s been decades since the last version of my D.EXE program. If I
ever
> On Dec 18, 2021, at 4:19 PM, Darik Horn wrote:
>
>> That starts to get complicated when trying to just use a program like UNZIP.
>> At nearly 200K for just the binary,
>
> The unzip-5.52 binary in the repack is 50,229 bytes. Which versions
> are you using?
The latest version we have 6.0.
> That starts to get complicated when trying to just use a program like UNZIP.
> At nearly 200K for just the binary,
The unzip-5.52 binary in the repack is 50,229 bytes. Which versions
are you using?
Compare versus 27,814 + 39,910 = 67,724 bytes for slicer and gzip in
FreeDOS 1.3-RC5.
> But,
> On Dec 18, 2021, at 11:43 AM, Darik Horn wrote:
>
> Jerome,
>
>> Did your repack include ALL packages included in the FloppyEdition not just
>> i386.
>
> Yes, the repack contains 1,177 files.
>
>
>> For example, VirtualBox and VMWare include FDNet as well as the set for 386s.
>
> Note
Jerome,
> Interesting. There are other compression methods to try. For example, lzma,
> bzip2, arj, etc.
These codecs were excluded in the first repack series. Results were:
1. LMZA1
Not significantly better than ZIP while using a dictionary size
appropriate for small-memory machines. And
Jerome,
> Did your repack include ALL packages included in the FloppyEdition not just
> i386.
Yes, the repack contains 1,177 files.
> For example, VirtualBox and VMWare include FDNet as well as the set for 386s.
Note that these things have empty categories in the official build, per below.
Hi listers: I realize this is probably old hat, but, I’m curious about the issue of LFN support on FreeDOS. FreeDOS is touted to support long file names. However, the support for them is commented out, but, of course, easily enabled in fdauto.bat. I do notice that the dir command doesn’t seem to
