DOS ain't dead

Hi,
Michael Kostylev sent me link to his build of 7ZA, CURL and WGET:
http://mik.dyndns.pro/tmp/
Maybe it would be good to reupload it somewhere else as it's in temp now.

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> Hi,
> Michael Kostylev sent me link to his build of 7ZA, CURL and WGET:
> http://mik.dyndns.pro/tmp/
> Maybe it would be good to reupload it somewhere else as it's in temp now.

Done.

http://glennmcc.org/download/mik/

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> > Hi,
> > Michael Kostylev sent me link to his build of 7ZA, CURL and WGET:
> > http://mik.dyndns.pro/tmp/
> > Maybe it would be good to reupload it somewhere else as it's in temp
> now.
>
> Done.
>
> http://glennmcc.org/download/mik/


Kewl...

http://mik.dyndns.pro/tmp/

now auto-redirects to...

http://mik.dyndns.pro/dos-stuff/bin/

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> Michael Kostylev sent me link to *** build of 7ZA, CURL and WGET

Thanks (untested)

PS: 7-ZIP 15.12 stable is out (untested) oops ... pnot pyet phere

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> > Michael Kostylev sent me link to *** build of 7ZA, CURL and WGET
>
> Thanks (untested)
>
> PS: 7-ZIP 15.12 stable is out
> (untested) oops ...
> pnot pyet phere

OK, wget has own proxy,,, partly works with --no-proxy

> > > Hi,
> > > Michael Kostylev sent me link to his build of 7ZA, CURL and WGET:
> > > http://mik.dyndns.pro/tmp/
> > > Maybe it would be good to reupload it somewhere else as it's in temp
> > now.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > http://glennmcc.org/download/mik/
>
>
> Kewl...
>
> http://mik.dyndns.pro/tmp/
>
> now auto-redirects to...
>
> http://mik.dyndns.pro/dos-stuff/bin/

Mik has added another item to his site
which I have now mirrored on my site.

wget117b.7z

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> > Michael Kostylev sent me link to his build of 7ZA
>
> PS: 7-ZIP 15.12 stable is out
> (untested) oops ...
> pnot pyet phere

7-Zip 15.14 (2015-12-31) is latest official (stable) version.

But the p7zip dudes did finally update as well (2016-03-13):

https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/15.14/p7zip_15.14_src_all.tar.bz2/download

So, feel free to ping M.K. to (re)build it.

It may seem pointless ("just do it yourself"), but I did grab 7zdec sources (from LZMA SDK 15.14) and rebuilt it with DJGPP for FreeDOS:

1). 7zdec1514.zip (2.05, GCC 5.30)
2). 7zdec1514-djgpp203p2.zip

The idea was mainly to replace the aging 9.22 version (five years old, although I'm not honestly aware of any obvious improvements).

I preferred a modern build and not using an ancient compiler, but I do still consider GCC 2.95.3 / DJGPP 2.03p2 a good classic, so I rebuilt with that as well, just in case anybody needed a smaller build for old floppies or such.

It is debatable whether I should've just lumped them all into one .ZIP, but I didn't figure it was worth it.

> 7-Zip 15.14 (2015-12-31) is latest official version.
>
> But the p7zip dudes did finally update as well.

Oh, BTW, latest p7zip is now 15.14.1 (2016-03-23).

7-Zip 16.00 2016-05-10
7-Zip 16.01 2016-05-19
7-Zip 16.02 2016-05-21

What's new:

> 7-Zip now can extract multivolume ZIP archives (z01, z02, ... , zip)
> Some bugs were fixed

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> 7-Zip 16.02 2016-05-21

Since July 14, there's now p7zip 16.02 sources available:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/16.02/

> Since July 14, there's now p7zip 16.02 sources available:

No change in p7zip [sic], but upstream 7-Zip is now at 16.04 (since 2016-10-04).

But Mik did update a lot of stuff recently, e.g. p7zip 16.02, curl 7.50.1, and wget 1.18.

> > 7-Zip 16.02 2016-05-21
>
> Since July 14, there's now p7zip 16.02 sources available:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/16.02/

With the 16.02 and 15.09 DOS binaries, I've again stumbled into the UNIX-compile bug whereby all standard deflate .zip archives created will not extract with Pkware's own Pkunzip utilities. I get the message "You need Pkzip version 78.8 to extract." I posted about this years ago,

http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=8418

and found a solution by a quick-and-dirty patch to the 7ZA.EXE file so that 0x03 'UNIX' descriptor byte was set to the proper 0x00 'MS-DOS' Operating System.

I'm unable to accomplish this with the above 15.09 or 16.02 binaries. I'm wondering if a new compile will be nessary, as I can't locate the magic bytes 0x03 ---> 0x00 to modify.

We have a simple flag being set incorrectly, and this is indeed hard to troubleshoot. It's a UNIXism which is a carryover to these compiles. Certainly PKware's own PKZIP archiver SHOULD be able to decompress 7zip .zip files correctly! This is a stubborn bug.

Perhaps someone more adept than I can re-compile with the flag correctly set? I'm at my wit's end.

Mik updated some more stuff: wget 1.19, curl 7.53.0