PCMCIA ethernet cards I have used many, in both MS-DOSand FreeDOS.
Does you card have any driver PKT or PACKET?
Alain
Jeffrey D. Shaffer escreveu:
Hello all, Sorry if this has been answered before. I have been trying
to search the FAQs and the Archives, but with little luck (perhaps I'm
not
I have one ZEN1200 which has a Realtec-8139 chip
All PCMCIA need an enabler. Irecomend that you either buy one that
explicitely say for DOS or go phisicaly to the store and hava a look
at the drivers.
Alain
Jeffrey D. Shaffer escreveu:
Hi there, Alain. Thank you for your reply.
My card (a
Blair Campbell escreveu:
What about Blair's RTL? and it also has LFN...
And symlinks :-)
What are symlinks in DOS? I know of them in Linux, and as part of the OS
not the RTL...
Alain
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Hi Joel,
Could you explain what is rxvt ?? it could be usefull...
thanks,
Alain
Solved! Turns out to be a locales problem.
I'd been doing some work with the UTF8 character set.
The following command does the trick for me.
LC_ALL=C rxvt -e dosemu
for the program rxvt and
its children ... specifically, the dosemu program. That's why the fix
works.
You could also get the same effect by doing this:
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
rxvt -e dosemu
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:37 -0200, Alain M. wrote:
Hi Joel,
Could you
I just found about: Partition Resizer v1.3.4, www.zeleps.com
It is a free DOS program, has anyone information about it?
It could be included as a link in the FreeDOS page...
Alain
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VMware is very good and works with FreeDOS, any windows and Any Linux.
You will not need support, it easy and it does what you expect it to do,
Qemu is good too, but diffuclt to install and setup.
VMware is fast, nearly 90% of host machine. Graphics for DOS are very
slow (Qemu is a little
Hi Robert,
Don't forget http://www.virtualbox.org/ from the VirtualPC makers.
I didn't know it :) :) it looks very nice...
How is using it? I have a few questions:
1) is it fast for *graphics in DOS*? this is not very good in either
VMware or Qemu (it is good in Dosemu)
2) does it use
I agree with Jim:
VMware is better for some things: it is more compatible and AFAIK
*everything* works, but:
1) graphic screen in DOS is slow
2) C: is an image
3) other drives can only be networked
Dosemu has advantages:
1) Graphics are very fast in DOS (it ises a different approach to the
Some of these can be done...
Russell Button escreveu:
I'm running vmware server under Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake).
Nice :)
1. Get IP networking running on the freedos VM.
What can be doen is install Windows client for dos (It is free), you
will have to find the driver for the board
Hi Bernd,
[...] HTTP/FTP downloads through packet driver (Wget),
What version do you use? does it work ok?
On the net I found
wget182b-1.zip
wput031.zip
I was in need tof developing them!!!
What would I use for sending emails (with attachement file)
Thanks,
Alain
Yes, I used the same trick, it's exactly like a REAL machine ;-)
Alain
Jim Hall escreveu:
I don't have Parallels anymore, but to debug this I tried to install
FreeDOS 1.0 using VMWare. I hit the same problem you found: after
using XFDisk to partition the drive, reboot, and then you see
Does it change using regular dos commands?
mode co80,50
mode co80,43
test without NDN loaded, because it has an option to restore it's own
display configuration.
Alain
Johnson Lam escreveu:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:28:00 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi,
In what way? There are TSRs to provide
frank finley escreveu:
Just to let the Freedos user world know that the Online Bible (Dos version)
load error is now solved, thanks to user-list member Eric Auer.
Thanks,
Alain
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Hi Bernd,
I couldn't undertand what you want, if:
1) you want automated packed driver installer, I can help,
2) you want a ram disk from command line, I use DEVLOAD TDSK.EXE
Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu:
tom ehlert schreef:
I'm missing an *auto-installed* network driver (packet or NDIS),
I would personaly use a small Linux Distro and many instances of DOSEMU.
That way you have everything stable and well tested with a very good
performance.
IIRC there was such a thing: http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/lios/
It would be nice to have a modern port of that :)
Alain
Nick Warren
:)
Larry Alkoff escreveu:
Eric I just started using nansi40d.sys and its a great improvement over
40a. Nansi40a did not give 4dos directory colors but 40d does. Finally
I can get rid of the proprietary ansi.sys.
Thanks for the updates.
Larry
Do you have wget and wput working in FreeDOS (usng packet drivers)? I
would be very interested in that.
The best I fot until now is FTP from WatTcp which is small and works
very nicely.
There is a small bug in some free ftp servers for Windows, and I will
make some fixes in WatTcp's ftp
2. Bad or missing Command interpreter: C:\FDOS\bin\command.com C:\FDOS\bin
/E:1/P=C:\auotexec.bat
That should mean exactly that. The command.com file is not
found, maybe because the install did not fully complete.
it could also be that you boot from CD boot area, which becomes A: so
you
Grant Edwards escreveu:
(now all I have to do is figure out how to fix that damned
caps-lock key...).
What do you want to do?
Alain
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There is a tutorial *somewhere* about how to install a new driver in the
ms-client floppy so that instalation can be automatic!!!
The sad thing is that I lost that link, if anyone has it, please send it
here :) :)
Alain
Mikiya Matsuzaka escreveu:
i try to use ssh2dos and work perfectly!!!
someone escreveu:
-- Michael C. Robinson
Replace memmaker anyone???
INHO memmaker is not very inportant for new hardware (newer then 386!).
It was very important when UMB was complex and tricky made of many small
memory areas. For some time now, it has become a contimous block of
Geraldo Netto escreveu:
Hi Guys,
In portuguese we have:
1 - segundos
Ok
2 - passados
2 - decorridos
3 - RUNTIME é um software livre de domínio público por Eric Auer 2007
Uso: RUNTIME seu_programa [suas_opções]
Mostra quanto tempo o seu programa executou, max 1 dia
This one works: http://www.netbootdisk.com/ FWIK, it's the new version,
(correct me if I am wrong)
I believe that the link bellow is offline or obsolete :(
Alain
John Heim escreveu:
From: 勇顺张 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Thanks mark ,eric responded mail so soon.
Hi all,
Please, I need a simple *text mode with collor* screen grabber for dos.
Not a super vga or vesa... just text ;-)
So that I can insert the screen later into other documentations.
Thanks,
Alain
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I never used Virtual Box, but I can say this:
VMware is very good, *except* for DOS graphics programs. graphics screen
is very slow. With Win98 and a special drivers it is good. Network
is ok, I could only share folders as network disks.
Qemu is faster for graphics in DOS. It has some
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
I sell an expensive DOS based engineering program
I also sell (rent) programs that run in DOS :) :) moving to FreeDOS...
You should first try VMware. It has everything that you need, even the
dongle should work. The only problem that I foresee is screen speed.
Hi all,
Eric Auer wrote:
If HIMEMX is FreeDOS HIMEM plus some bugfixes by Japheth: Yes.
OTHERWISE I recommend to use JEMM386 (also on www.japheth.de)
which is an optimized and improved version of FreeDOS emm386.
I also have doubts about this.
We (many people in this list) espent months
Hi Eric,
I am still in doubt: did he start from Michael's last and well tested
version or is it possible that it has bugs already fixed in Michael's
version?
Alain
Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi Alain,
If HIMEMX is FreeDOS HIMEM plus some bugfixes by Japheth: Yes.
OTHERWISE I recommend to use
Hi Japheth,
Japheth escreveu:
Btw, in the name of how many people are you speaking exactly? And what do you
regard as well tested. Because, as for me, I seriously doubt that a program
is well tested just because some dozens (or some hundreds? I have no idea
how big the FD user base is.)
Hi Chris,
I use FreeDOS in read world applications and it runs well and stable.
If you have enough knowledge in DOS, I recomend that you just ignore the
install CD and pick each program that you need and place it where you
believe it belongs. That way it works great! The install CD is over
Chris Ruhl escreveu:
I'll post more as I find it but I cannot run FreeDOS until I can work
out a functional file system check and repair utility.
That will be dosfsck. in fact it is the same as used by linux (recognize
the name?)
Alain
There is a project that is *almost* what you need: www.netbootdisk.com,
it fits into one flopy, has drivers for *ALL* NICs (including new 1Gb)
and it loads both MS-Client (which is free), has a DHCP preconfigured
and packet driver.
It works just fine with ftp from the WatTcp project! or you
Johnson Lam escreveu:
If anyone can help Jack to find S-ATA native control, he may consider
implement it, but all the resources seems need to pay ...
Where? how much? please send a link if you have...
Alain
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This
This is the successor of NC: http://ndn.muxe.com/
you can use the latest beta, it usialy is stable...
Alain
Vytautas Rakeviius escreveu:
I used FreeDOS for few days. And the thing I lacked
the most was some kind of program or at least textfile
about which program do what. And at all it is
There is an added trick, it made the difference for me:
with GRUB,you can
1) change the active partition before starting it. That is that I use to
select hda1=FreeDOS and hda2=Win98
2) you can swap whole partitions around, this is usefull when you have a
WinXT that was instaled as hda1 and now
Bonnie Dalzell escreveu:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Florian Xaver wrote:
FX
FX Much better than Midnight Commander is Necromancer DOS Navigator (NDN).
It
FX has many many features ;-)
FX You should have installed it.
when I went to the home pages for this application
http://ndn.muxe.com
I was used to printq because it was far better then print, you should
give it a try. I found it at ibiblio (in Freedos, he he...)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/print/
Alain
Chris Ruhl escreveu:
I will certainly give the NEWDOS a whirl when I can. I've downloaded
MegaBrutal escreveu:
Hi all!
It's my very first post to the list, so greetings for all.
Please, be welcomme!
I've finished the 2.3 version of Destroy.
Just a reminder: A much more simple wipe-before-delete can be
acconplished with my version of XDEL, which is compatible with DrDOS's.
I use it regularly, it works just fine. The networking problem is that
you have to find the appropriate driver for the virtual NIC. Probably
www.netbootdisk.com will help, it also installs a MS client
Alain
usul escreveu:
hello,
has anyone done this and got filesharing and networking to
Mateusz Viste escreveu:
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:37, Robert Riebisch wrote:
Look for Microsoft Network Client 3.0.
Or visit http://www.geocities.com/ken_yap_aus/.
I already saw those resources, but couldn't find anything about direct
printing to network printers... MS Network Client
What you fount are good news...
By the way, are you printing from a plain dos machine, dosemu... ???
Alain
Mateusz Viste escreveu:
On Monday 01 October 2007 13:30, Robert Riebisch wrote:
I'm not aware of such an application. Start with WATTCP and distribute
your result. :-)
Until now I
Hi Hugo and Bonnie,
Bonnie Dalzell escreveu:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Hugo Delchini wrote:
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux
OS
# on /dev/hda1
title FreeDOS
root(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Complement for
A very short while ago I found GPARTED, it is a *complete* partition
solution, and it can move ext3 and RaiserFS partitions too.
It has also a live CD (50Mb) so that using is painless. For most
operations, it uses the regular Linux programs like dosfsck and
reiserfsck, etc...
Same place on the top right corner:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/gpartedlive/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
/
Alain
Thank you for the response.
Where may I get the CD?
Dick.
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To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
If i understand correctly, root (hd0,5) is because it is in an
extended partition. No DOS can boot from extende partitions.
I recomend that you use GPARTED and move it to a primary partition.
Alain
Enbor . escreveu:
Hi, I had installed FreeDOS and now I'm trying to to boot it using
Grub, but
Enbor . escreveu:
If i understand correctly, root (hd0,5) is because it is in an
extended partition. No DOS can boot from extended partitions.
Yes, is a logical/extended partition, but I've read that it's possible
to boot from there using Grub, maybe that's no true?
I have never seen it
Ok, you moved from one impossible thing to another. DOS can only boot
from the first disk...
BUT maybe a trick that I found some time ago can help: Grub can remap
disks, I used it to move Windows XP, so it may work for DOS:
# Windows XP SP2
title Windows XP
rootnoverify
Hi Japheth,
I am (nicely) surprised with this release!!
Why I am surprised: running on virtual machines I would have immagined
that these would be useless. Not the least that I doubt, but I am
*curious*, having a reasonable hardware knowledge. Could you please give
a (short) explanation of
To load both ndis ms-client and packet driver for the same card, the
easiest way is to install netbootdisk and copy whatever config file it
generates.
It's a kind of black magic, really not for the novice... I consider
myself experinced (started with PC-DOS 1.1) and never really mastered that.
Hi Ulrich,
Thanks for the nice explanation, 2nd version. I would like to make a few
comments.
3. To activate the hardware driver and the DIS_PKT converter we need
other parts from the NDIS 2 universe: The Protocol Manager driver
(PROTMAN.DOS, PROTMAN.EXE) and the Bind utility
Remember that there is a parameter in HIMEM to set apart a little memory
for int15.. Did you try that?
Alain
Japheth escreveu:
- the program uses dos4gw but using dos32a instead does not help
- the program crashes with fd emm386 and with jemm386...
- the program works okay if only himem but
Sorry, I was thinking that you both were a third person ;-)
So my comment was directed to that 3rd non-existing person :(
Alain
Japheth escreveu:
Remember that there is a parameter in HIMEM to set apart a little memory
for int15.. Did you try that?
I tried nothing because it is Eric who
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] JEMM troubles - with VESA LFB
Sorry, I was thinking that you both were a third person ;-)
So my comment was directed to that 3rd non
Hi Ed,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
Alain you stated:
*
I googled a lot on this subject: it seems that it is not possible to
boot from a CD when you are in grub. I have successfully booted floppy,
changed active partition from grub and even
What has been said here, a few months back, is that Samba server and
CIFS clent is working ok with file locks.
Also you should check wich version of FreeDOS you are using. It couls be
helpfull do test with MS-DOS to make sure where the problem is.
Of course, I assume that your works ok, with
Fabien Meghazi escreveu:
2) SMB :
I tried the msclient with no luck.
Besides, I heard it uses a lot of memory and I guess it could be a
nightmare to setup
with the different smb versions out there. So I dropped this option.
You should try www.netbootdisk.com it is easy and it works with
Thanks Mateusz,
Do you have an image of all the gliphs that you draw? it could be
usefull to check if we are getting what should be.= and if there is what
we need ;-)
Alain
Mateusz Viste escreveu:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit offtopic, as this news isn't really FreeDOS-related...
I
Blair Campbell escreveu:
I've tried downloading the file 1 time on each OS, both hit same speed!
*i did same file because servers farther away are bit slower*
I don't know what's Wrong.
My guess is that since FreeDOS is single-tasking, it is naturally
going to download things from
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
It`s quite problematic to run FreeDOS on modern hardware.
Amazingly it is not. Runs very well in on any machine, I use it
professionaly!
Alain
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What is audio quality as good as something from this year?
Can you really tell the difference betwen anything better than a sound
blaster? At least you will need very expensive speakers, in that case
you can afford two sound cards :)
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
Florian Xaver schrieb:
I am
I believe that you will have a hard time making that work, but I may
suggest an alternative:
Make a different partition for all your dada and make it encrypted. You
can manage to have your data available from both both XT and FreeDOS.
I use a similar setup where my data is allways D: and C: is
Eric Auer escreveu:
[...] and that you can use Jack's UIDE driver with UDMA
and SATA harddisk and cdrom support and [...]
Does this mean anything about fast SATA drivers?
Alain
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IMHO, if this works, you will have problems with most dos programs...
Couldn't you find a font that is just a bit smaller? you would get less
problems.
OTOH, you could use that same font in dosemu configuration.
Please keep us informed, I am particularly interested in this topic :)
Alain
Larry escreveu:
I run freedos in vmware.
I use it sometimes. The only problem is that graphics mode is
vry slow.
Alain
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Why do you ask for broader network card support then? ;-)
This exists :) :)
www.netbootdisk.com works like magic. I only had to make a small batch
file to save the configuration to C:\NET and that is it!
Alain
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just fo fun, try using this, you will need tuntap and others :)
--
#? Habilita conexões
# echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
# Libera acesso ao tuntap
chmod 666 /dev/net/tun
# Cria um Bridge
brctl addbr br0
# Re-conecta eth0 no Bridge
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl
Eric Auer escreveu:
I found a binary copy of a Brazilian Portuguese freecom
command.com (ca 11/2005 or older) in my archives... This
is, as far as I remember, from Alain or Henrique who lost
his source text file...
That was me :) all my machines were stolen the same weekend :(
So I
Eric Auer escreveu:
Also, there is no source code available.
You are right, it is not open source. So it is only free
as in free beer but not free as in free speech... :-).
Why is it that you don't need sources to get drunk for free?
Why dou need sources to get on your soap box and make a
You question is clear... but incomplete...
What hardware are you talking about. There are *many* possibilities, but
but different solutions for different hw and/or problems.
To name a few: VMware/Qemu/VirtualBox/DosBox/Boshs/Dosemu/etc... each
acn do some nice little tricks :)
Alain
[EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
What you want is to use the old board? Then you should try Dosemu, just
as Erik said...
Dosemu is a very fas Linux aplication and you will have real access to
your hardware. It even has a resource locking interface with the main OS.
Now, if you want to develop
I believe thare is something for AC97...
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
Hi!
How to get sound on:
a) desktop computers and motherboards without PCI (and for sure also no ISA)
B) new notebooks without sb16 onboard
?
Currently impossible?
-mr
I have installed FreeDOS is many 64 bit processors, never had any problem.
IMHO the important part is drive not ready, this is probably a dirver
issue. Remember that all DOSes use disks through the bios, so it is the
bios responsability to do that...
In fact I noteiced that as a mater of fact
try www.netbootdisk.com
if it works, I can help you installing it permnently
Alain
Lester Vanhoff escreveu:
The network adapter on my computer is:
Realtek RTL8211B 10/100/1000 Ethernet
There doesn't seem to be any DOS packet drivers available. The links
below look like a way
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
pcdos2k schrieb:
Maybe you find something there. I used EZ-NOS2 as DOS
ftp-server for some time. But it won't run as DOS TSR.
eznos2 can shell to dos.
Shell to dos is nearly the same as TSR?
Yes, only will probably have very little free memory.
Nice, but
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
Program for cpu hog? Do you mean
dosidle or idle.com
that is what I mean :)
Alain
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Ulrich Hansen escreveu:
Fact is, Jemmex crashes quite often for me if the conventional memory
is low, so I don't know if it's MS Client related.
That is troublesome... Are there more JEMMEX's related problems?
Alain
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I believe that you should never mix emm386 and himem between any dos
version. Ths is for dosemu too, which has it's own
Alain
robinson-west user escreveu:
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:50 -0500, Jim Hall wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:05 PM, robinson-west user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are a lot of problems with different compilers, including bugs.
What I use is:
TZ=X0Y0
it defines a TimeZone with localtime=UTC and no daylight save time, all
explicitly. AFAIK it makes everything local time...
Alain
Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi!
set TZ=X)Y)
Do not set TZ, it confuses
Travis Siegel escreveu:
I use one called qedit, (now called tse junior) and last I checked, it
was still registerable, and it can be found at http://www.semware.com/
There is a pro version of the tse program, though I use the jr
version, and it works just fine.
Hope this helps.
It is
Hi Aitor,
How difficult is it to change menu and controlkeys in Edir 0.9 to mimic
M$ Edit in Portuguese?
Alain
Aitor Santamaría escreveu:
Hello,
2008/10/1 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi!
1) I have discover strange behaviour in the 'FreeDOS Edit 0.7d'. When I
type cyrillic 'п' (hex
That is one case where millions of ignorant are just plain wrong.
I found a fix for that many many years ago in a Novell manual and it
works on everything except Dosemu:
Don't write to LPT1:, instead open a file named LPT1 and write to it
normaly. You will see that when you *close de file* the
Usb keyboars are handled by bios, so they are transparent and work well
on FreeDOS. Except:
1) old machines don't have usb keyboard support or are buggy.
2) Notebooks have it working for longer than desktops.
As a side note, I can say that on *my* machine I have an adapter,
because I use
There is one fundamental problem for booting any DOS: it has to boot
either from A: or C:, this last beind an active primary partition
That is to say that if your pndrive is like an HD, you will need to make
it look like a primary active partition on the first HD.
There is a command that I
Robert Riebisch escreveu:
Adobe Brain CS(Common Sense) 3 is available now for $1699, an arm, a
leg, and an empty cranium.
Please buy one and get a serious mail client, which doesn't send bloated
HTML! :-P 8 Kbyte for a single sentence must be a joke.
Of course, this *was* a joke ;)
Alain
Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi!
Why not use SYS? It does this (although not like dd.)
SYS writes the FreeDOS boot to MBR.
No - SYS writes to the boot sector of the partition.
It NEVER writes to the MBR.
Correct: the program that does that id fdisk, this way:
fdisk /MBR
Alain
if you use VMware you will nedd another driver... VMware creates a
virtual machine and that means that everything is virtual. Including
that your virtual machine will allways be the same regardless of what
your real hw is, and will remain unchaged forever which is fery nice
when you upgrade
Would you tell as what you intend to do? we could help you more that way :)
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
What is the equivalent for /dev/mem
the concept is not 1:1 as in DOS you have no protected memory, memoy
acces is done via any pointer...
or /dev/hda under DOS?
Disk is C:, but that is
Eric Auer escreveu:
Google says rugxulo.googlepages.com and there a link
points to the 7zip: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xgcdrm24.7z
Would this driver work for recording? on any drive?
Maybe I am just daydreaming :)
Alain
Eric
Maybe this is also a dumb question but is it possible to run
FreeDos on a different File System? like on of the linux ones
and still be able to run/use most dos programs?
There is one that works very well: When using dosemu, Drive C: is
redirected to a directory in the System's file
Michael Reichenbach escreveu:
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi!
Like I suggested an SFTP client using XMS or JLM.
There are already SSH, SCP and SFTP 1 and 2 clients,
called SSHDOS: http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/
It's a client and not a network drive.
This could be a very intereting start point to
Geraldo Netto escreveu:
certified(okay) packages are at
http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/fdupdate/
There is a problem here: There are 2 pirates programs there: pkzip and
arj. Can this be removed
Alain
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King InuYasha escreveu:
I believe Info-ZIP has a suitable replacement for PKware's DOS pkzip and
pkunzip (ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/msdos/).
Yes, it is compatible, just has a different command line (more unix
like). I made the switch many years ago :)
Definnetly ZIP and UNZIP
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