Hi,
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Joe Forster/STA wrote:
>
>> BTW, Unzip hasn't had a proper release since 2009 (AFAIK).
>
> No, it hasn't.
I was halfway implying that FreeDOS wasn't necessarily incompetent
here, that it just hasn't changed much upstream since then. Hence
there's really nothing "new" to ship.
> Version 6.0 is supposed to be a major release, only with some
> bug fixes (I also reported one and it got fixed) and preparation for another
> major release, version 6.1 (or 7.0). Same with Zip 3.0 -> 3.1.
http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html#Future
Unfortunately, not much has changed in recent years (last Unzip beta
was in 2010). I guess 6.00 is "good enough" for most people already.
There was a ZIP 3.1d beta about a year ago (2015), but apparently that
also never got finalized (and isn't even on their SF.net site).
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/beta/
> If I may advertize myself, you can download my compilations (DOS 16-bit:
> Borland C++ 3.1; 32-bit: DJGPP 2.03) from
> http://sta.c64.org/dosprg/unz600x.exe and
> http://sta.c64.org/dosprg/zip300x.zip . I haven't extensively tested them,
> though. (I'm using the 32-bit Windows version instead.)
But your binaries report the same 6.0 (2009) version. Is there a
practical difference? Are there additional bugfixes? Or did you just
want smaller size?
As much as I like smaller size, I think DJGPP 2.03p2 is dead and 2.05
should be preferred. It's not wrong to use it, of course (and I still
stick to my own 2.03p2-recompiled Unzip on my MetaDOS floppy that is
almost the exact same size as yours ... sadly not using UPX "lzma" due
to complaint), but I still wonder whether it's "better" or not. Didn't
2.05 fix some rare LFN issues? And of course it'd be bigger, but it'd
also have DJGPP-ish symlinks, which is sometimes nice. If you wanted
small size, symlink support would be where to look to trim the fat
(oops, forgot about printf [doprnt or whatever], ugh).
--
Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors
Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms.
With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE.
Training and support from Colfax.
Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi
___
Freedos-devel mailing list
Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel