Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! I said it before but I'll re-iterate - any filesystem with proper journaling would be a total banger. I still remember how Rayman ate my FreeDOS and I still have dosfsck in my fdauto as a preventative measure. It's slow as molasses in January however. The same program under Linux blows

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 12:31 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-user > wrote: >> >> In which way is "FreeDOS" limited to 2GB sized files? (Sorry, never >> bothered wit such large files on DOS (any DOS)? The file size entry in >> the FAT32 directory entry is a 4 byte integer. As a filesize can't be >>

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-11-04 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
well..this was an adventure I hope not to encounter again. First, the t command, which I was told would test integrity failed all together. so did, unlike with pk branded zip items, running p7zip on an archive in a different directory, even with the DPMI file right beside the thing. What

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, I'm not entirely sure NT (Win XP etc.) ever supported such a thing atop FAT32 either (via DOS calls). Via DOS calls in NT? Not sure. But in ordinary operations, it was as normal as pie. I remember pretty well that I had to cut up >4GiB files into pieces so that we could transfer them