On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, tom ehlert wrote:
But this is tricky to unpack
No.
Depends :)
and needs more temp space.
Yes.
Not necessarily.
I recommend using TGZ in that case.
not available for DOS.
It is, see:
ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis
It's called untar, but it really is untgz.
((Er,
Steffen Kaiser
Does somebody know about the memory consumption of the decompression
process and if two of them can exists in parallel simultaneously? Then and
if you know that you unpack a double-zipped archive in advance, it should
be easy to implement it. -- Where is the volunteer? ;-)
If
Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Aitor,
you did not get the point...
when you zip 100 files that are the same, the zip will be
100 times some size. However, when you use an UNCOMPRESSED
zip, then the file will basically contain 100 times the same
data structure. TAR is in principle the same as an
X-Comment-To: Aitor Santamaria Merino
Hi!
3-äÅË-2002 16:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamaria Merino) wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
ASM Well, the good point is that the code could be disposed after loading KEYB.
Of course.
ASM I haven't used these libraries, but I just wonder if one can
Hi,
I think you are overdoing things. When MSN started ages ago, they started in dozens of
countries with only 3 or 4 languages. I think it IS useful
to have the reduced set on the install disks. The installer
can then pick one of the language specific sets to copy to C:,
as is currently done
X-Comment-To: tom ehlert
Hi!
2-äÅË-2002 21:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I recommend using TGZ in that case.
te not available for DOS.
__O\_/_\_/O__
UNTGZ/386 Decompression Utility 0.94 freeware version
is possible. the problem is with the installer, not with ZIP.
pipes == temp space under DOS. So doesn't change much.
I meant, that the problem is with the *permanent* space requirements.
233 Kb *temp* requirement is certainly available; at least if you have
- a CDROM
- some
Hi Aitor,
you did not get the point...
when you zip 100 files that are the same, the zip will be
100 times some size. However, when you use an UNCOMPRESSED
zip, then the file will basically contain 100 times the same
data structure. TAR is in principle the same as an uncompressed
zip, but it is
X-Comment-To: Eric Auer
Hi!
2-äÅË-2002 23:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
EA UNTGZ needs more RAM than GUNZIP - tempfile - UNTAR,
EA but I believe it should still be in range of what 16bit can
EA handle, but ONLY if untgz internally pipes data around and
EA does not
Hello!
(1) Keep as it is now, and release driver's version merged
with latest
REDUCED pack, FULL to be downloaded optionally.
(2) Do not merge any layout pack with the driver: let the user choose
either REDUCED or FULL, even if s/he has to download neccessarily at
least two files .
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:22:05 +0300 (MSK)
From: Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
As Arkady stated, untgz is available for DOS.
So I suggest that FreeDOS should use this technique.
Reason:
I don't care about FreeDOS CD-ROMs. They have 650 MB of space.
I care about 1.44MB installation disks
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