Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Darik, I did not read every entry in that list of files. But there were a couple things I noticed while skimming it… Those files are in the mirrors section of the ibiblio server. They don’t really have anything directly to do with the packages in the software repo area. Nor do they have

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Darik Horn
Eric, > Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes > the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a > solid archive. Look at a FreeDOS package like 'latest/apps/doszip.zip' and notice the embedded SOURCE/SOURCES.ZIP file. Every package with long file names in upstream

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 4:13 PM, E. Auer wrote: > >  > Hi! Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes > the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a > solid archive. If you remove them from the ZIP and add a > TAR of the sources to the ZIP instead, you would

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread E. Auer
Hi! Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a solid archive. If you remove them from the ZIP and add a TAR of the sources to the ZIP instead, you would get that type of result, but it would mean that the install process will

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Darik, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > [..] > RAR implements the PKZIP listfile syntax, so the SETUP.BAT invocation > would change to this; > > SET TCPU=8086 > REM vinfo stuff goes here... > unrar x freedos.rar @%TCPU%.txt > > Where the @LISTFILE corresponds to a

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Darik Horn
Jerome, > I’m not sure what version of UnRAR you are using. I used these two upstream releases to repack the latest FreeDOS 1.3 release candidate: 1. ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/rar250.exe for decompression. FreeDOS ships the 16-bit UnRAR 2.50 binary from this release, and the IDOS.SFX module

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 5:05 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Darik Horn wrote: > > The UnRAR in FreeDOS is 32,086 bytes and already implements all of the things > that you want for SCLICER, which is currently 28,188 bytes. > (Compression, installation scripting,

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Travis, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 10:37 AM, Travis Siegel wrote: > > I have never used slicer, so can't comment on it. > I wouldn’t expect you to use it. In almost every case, there are other utilities that are in common use. And/or, better suited to a task. Slicer was created specifically

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Travis Siegel
I have never used slicer, so can't comment on it.  However, I have used rar for years, and I've never found a task it can't be made to do with proper command line parameters.  If you only want a specific file extracted, it's easy enough to tell it to use that file only, (or a range of files if

[Freedos-user] Ubuntu updates Samba

2021-11-11 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
On my legacy FreeDOS PC, at C:, I have just entered "print readme.txt.". My Ubuntu tower PC has printed the three pages! -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

2021-11-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Darik, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Darik Horn wrote: > [..] > SLICER is small. Less than 1/10th the size of RAR. While, this does not > matter as much for a 1.44mb diskette. It matters a lot if a user only has a > 160K drive to work with. With RAR being roughly 353K, that is not going