Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list.
I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, there is no active (DOS) maintainer, and it's somewhat buggy because of that (and the fact that it's really a very sloppy POSIX port that barely works with DJGPP). I don't grok C++, so I wasn't much further help regarding it. It does work, but it's far from perfect. If you just want to unpack .7z files, use 7zdec. But normally, as Jim Hall always tells us, ZIP is preferred overall, so just use (old but good) Info-Zip (zip / unzip). (Or you could run old standalone Win32 7za [sic] under HX. That worked pretty well. Besides, the DJGPP build of p7zip doesn't have 7z [sic] anyways ... although even that build [Win32] I did briefly get running under HX). There's also upstream DJGPP builds of XZ, if you just can't live without LZMA. And a billion other archivers (UHarc??). I honestly haven't kept up in recent years (not sure why I ever bothered, I'm not savvy enough to understand the details anyways). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
